Call for Papers: SQM 2010 - 5th International Workshop on Software Quality and Maintainability

Fifth International Workshop on Software Quality and Maintainability "Bridging the gap between end user expectations, vendors' business prospects, and software engineers' requirements on the ground." SQM 2010, satellite event of IEEE CSMR 2010 Madrid, 15-18 March 2010 http://sqm2010.sig.eu/ BACKGROUND Software is playing a crucial role in modern societies. Not only do people rely on it for their daily operations or business, but for their lives as well. For this reason, correct and consistent behavior of software systems is a fundamental part of end user expectations. Additionally, businesses require cost-effective production, maintenance, and operation of their systems. Thus, the demand for good quality software is increasing and is setting it as a differentiator for the success or failure of a software product. In fact, high quality software is becoming not just a competitive advantage but a necessary factor for companies to be successful. The main question that arises now is how quality is measured. What, where and when we assess and assure quality, are still open issues. Many views have been expressed about software quality attributes, including maintainability, evolvability, portability, robustness, reliability, usability, and efficiency. These have been formulated in standards such as ISO/IEC-9126 and CMMI. However, the debate about quality and maintainability between software producers, vendors and users is ongoing, while organizations need the ability to evaluate the software systems that they use or develop from multiple angles. So, is "Software quality in the eye of the beholder"? This workshop session aims at feeding into this debate by establishing what the state of the practice and the way forward is. SUBMISSION We are pleased to invite paper submissions for a workshop in the IEEE 14th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2010 - http://www.sait.escet.urjc.es/csmr2010/) on Software Quality and Maintainability. We are looking for research and empirical contributions in areas including, but not limited to the following: - Software quality attributes - Software measurement - Software maintainability - Software evolution - Software quality assessment practice and automation - Software quality standards - Software quality certification - Software measurement data analysis - Experience reports We solicit short position papers or long papers with a maximum length of 10 pages, following the IEEE Computer Society formatting guidelines (see http://www.sait.escet.urjc.es/csmr2010/submissions.html). See the website for further submission details. All accepted workshop papers will be edited and bound together into an informal proceedings volume, which will only be distributed to the workshop attendees. After the workshop, all authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit a final version of the paper for formal publication. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: 29 January 2010 Paper submission: 5 February 2010 Notifications of acceptance: 19 February 2010 Camera ready submission: 26 February 2010 ORGANISATION Workshop Chairs Yiannis Kanellopoulos, Software Improvement Group, The Netherlands Rudolf Ferenc, University of Szeged, Hungary Publicity Chair José Pedro Correia, Software Improvement Group, The Netherlands Programme Committee members Danilo Caivano, Università di Bari, Italy Pontus Johnson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Carl Worms, Credit Suisse, Switzerland Robert Baggen, TÜV Informationstechnik (TÜViT), Germany Florian Deissenboeck, Technische Universität München, Germany Christos Tjortjis, University of Ioannina, Greece Joost Visser, Software Improvement Group, The Netherlands Alexandros Chatzigeorgiou, University of Macedonia, Greece Jesus M. Gonzalez Barahona, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain Vasile Rus, University of Memphis, USA Radu Marinescu, Universitatea "Politehnica" din Timisoara, Romania Arpad Beszedes, University of Szeged, Hungary CONTACT For more information please contact: sqm2010@sig.eu