[SEWORLD] CFP: SUITE2010 (an ICSE2010 workshop): Search-Driven Development

Call for Paper SUITE 2010 2nd Intl. Workshop on Search-driven development: Users, Infrastructure, Tools and Evaluation Co-located with ICSE 2010 (32nd International Conference on Software Engineering) Cape Town, South Africa, May 1st 2010 ::Motivation and Goals:: As software development is a process of both information creation and information gathering, software developers are constantly searching for the pertinent information to solve their problems at hand. The information needs of software developers range from those related to code (writing, changing, fixing code) to process (design) and people (colleagues). The general theme of the workshop is to understand and find solutions for various information needs of software developers. The workshop seeks contributions that address core technical issues as well as more human aspects of this problem. The goal of the workshop is to identify the search-driven nature of software development as a key research topic. Participants will have broad range of expertise in topics such as: program analysis, building software tools and infrastructure, information retrieval, user studies and HCI, benchmarking and evaluation. ::Topics:: The workshop is concerned with all aspects of the search experience of software developers. Search-driven development involves a broad range of activities and topics, including but not limited to: - Approaches and tools to search software artifacts. - Approaches to search for developer expertise. - Crawling and parsing of internet-scale repositories. - Empirical studies of search and navigation in software development. - Experience reports on setting up and running large software search engines. - Integration of search engines with IDEs. - Just in time comprehension tools for developers. - Leveraging Web 2.0 and social networking techniques for developer’s information needs. - Novel argumentation models for searching in software message boards and email archives. - Pragmatic reuse of components & programming by example. - Query languages for software search. - Ranking strategies and heuristics for code search. - Searching the computation space, i.e. runtime object memory. - Slicing and generative techniques for search results extraction and synthesis. - Standards and benchmarks for the evaluation of search tools. - The use of visualizations in software search. - Understanding information needs of software developers. We are looking forward to exciting and stimulating discussions from: - Researchers with interest in enhancing search technology for developers. - Tool builders that want to improve the search experience of developers. - HCI Researchers with interest in better understanding of the search needs of developers. - Search-engine providers from the industry targeting the needs of software developers. ::Submission Guidelines:: Be electronic. Submit your position paper in PDF, using the workshop’s Cyberchair website, so that we can collect and publish all of the submissions on the website. Accepted submissions will be included in the ACM digital library. Submissions should be made in the ACM Proceedings format. Please follow the style guidelines as prescribed by ICSE, also detailed in the ACM web page. Be short. Please keep all position papers under four pages. Be innovative. It is okay to propose a recent idea that still has some unfinished sides to it. It is supposed to be a workshop, not a mini-conference. Be a rebel. Neglect these guidelines if you feel that your idea needs a special treatment in some way. ::Organization Committee:: Co-chairs Sushil Bajracharya, University of California Irvine, USA Adrian Kuhn, University of Bern, Switzerland Yunwen Ye, SRA, Japan Program Committee Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany Andrew Begel, Microsoft Research, USA Cleidson de Souza, Federal University of ParAi, Brazil Mark Grechanik, Accenture, USA Reid Holmes, University of Washington, USA Einar Host, Norsk Regnesentral, Norway Toshihiro Kamiya, AIST, Japan Andrew Ko, University of Washington, USA Erik Linstead, Chapman University, USA Cristina Lopes, University of California Irvine, USA Andrian Marcus, Wayne State University, USA Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Bern, Switzerland Martin Pinzger, Delft University, Netherlands Lori Pollock, University of Delaware, USA Susan Sim, University of California Irvine, USA Suresh Thummalapenta, North Carolina State University, USA Tom Zimmermann, Microsoft Research, USA Please visit http://scg.unibe.ch/wiki/events/suite2010/cfp for more information. Yunwen Ye Technology Strategy Division, Software Research Associates, Inc. 3-12 Yotsuya, Shinjuku, Tokyo 160-0004, Japan E: ye@sra.co.jp T: +81-3-3357-9361 F: +81-3-3351-0880 To contribute to SEWORLD, send your submission to mailto:seworld@sigsoft.org http://www.sigsoft.org/seworld provides more information on SEWORLD as well as a complete archive of messages posted to the list.