35th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications

On last week, between 27-29 August, it was run the 12th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD) and the 35th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) 2009.

Both conferences took place at the Cultural and Conference Center, in the University of Patras. The event put togther research from various places of the world. All of them interested in discussing new ideas, such work in progress, and concluded work. The RiSE group was represented by Yguaratã Cerqueira Cavalcanti, in the SEAA 2009 sessions, where he presented three works from the group, as follows:

1 - Martins, A. C; Garcia, V. C.; Almeida, E. S.; Meira, S. R. L. Suggesting Software Components for Reuse in Search Engines Using Discovered Knowledge Techniques, 35th IEEE EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), Service and Component Based Software Engineering (SCBSE) Track, Patras, Greece, 2009.

2 - Neiva, D. F. S; Almeida, E. S.; Meira, S. R. L. An Experimental Study on Requirements Engineering for Software Product Lines, 35th IEEE EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), Service and Component Based Software Engineering (SCBSE) Track, Short Paper, Patras, Greece, 2009.

3 - Silva, F. R. C; Almeida, E. S.; Meira, S. R. L. A Component Testing Approach Supported by a CASE Tool, 35th IEEE EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), Service and Component Based Software Engineering (SCBSE) Track, Short Paper, Patras, Greece, 2009.

The paper "A Component Testing Approach Supported by a CASE Tool" was presented in the SCBSE: Component-based Systems Correctness and Test session. In conjunction with this work, several other articles were presented , showing really interesting approaches.

The paper "Suggesting Software Components for Reuse in Search Engines Using Discovered Knowledge Techniques" was presented in the session SCBSE: Experiences and Applications. And th paper "An Experimental Study on Requirements Engineering for Software Product Lines" was showed in the session SPPI: Empirical Approaches.

All the work presented were very interesting. People showed a lot of new ideas to solve the most well know problems regarding SCBSE, and the importance of the empirical approaches session should be emphasized, since there is a lack of well made empirical validation in most of CS work.

Oh, we had also a very amazing gala dinner organized by the Euromicro committee, in front of a very beautiful beach. There we could taste really nice Greek food, and it was also possible to see some Greek dance and to listen Greek music. Really nice!!!

The next Euromicro will take place on Lilly, France. I hope to see you there.

Quality Certification of Reusable Components

Yesterday, RiSE group discussed a paper titled “Reuse Strategy based on Quality Certification of Reusable Components”. The main idea of the paper is: reuse components without quality could be worst than doesn’t reuse anything and one form of promoting reuse and reducing risks is guaranteeing the quality of software components. The paper presents 7 activities that should be executed in order to promote reuse with quality in software organizations: (1) Incorporation of Domain Analysis into the development process; (2) Incorporation of a Domain Analyst; (3) Incorporation of reuse into the development process; (4) Use of patterns; (5) Use of standards; (6) Certification of all types of reusable components; and (7) Use of reusable components repository. These activities show that we need a well-define software reuse process in order to incorporate this reuse process in the organization’s software process (i.e. process adaptation). After that, we need to store and manage the software assets developed in the organization, however, the quality evaluation of those assets are primordial before stored those assets. In this way, the assets certification could be useful in this case, certifying software assets in general (i.e. requirements, use case, architecture, source-code, etc.). The authors presented a set of quality characteristics that could be useful for requirements specification, design specification and source-code. After that, they considering a set of V&V techniques which should be considered in three quality layers cited above.

One interesting aspect of this paper is that we, from RiSE, are developing a robust software reuse framework that considering the same ideas of the activities stands out in the paper (and other ones also). Besides, we are applying this framework in real case environments and a set of tools were developed to support this environment. The main goal is increase the software productivity of software companies. Is it interested?? Contact RiSE.