Report on the 12th International Workshop on Quantitative Approaches to Software Quality (QuASoQ 2024) Horst Lichter1 , Nils Wild1 , Thanwadee Sunetnanta2 and Toni Anwar3 1 Research Group Software Construction, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany 2 Computer Science Academic Group, Faculty of Information And Communication Technology, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand 3 Faculty of Science and Information Technology, Chair Computer & Information Systems, Universiti Teknologi Petronas: Bandar Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia 1. Introduction Hence, one main goal of the workshop was to exchange experience, present new promising approaches, and dis- After a successful 11th QuASoQ workshop, we have again cuss how to set up, organize, and maintain quantitative included the following topics of interest: approaches to software quality. • New approaches to measurement, evaluation, com- parison, and improvement of software quality 2. Workshop History • Application of metrics and quantitative approaches in agile projects The QuASoQ workshop series started in 2013 and has since • Case studies and industrial experience reports on been organized as a collocated event of the Asia-Pacific the successful or failed application of quantitative Software Engineering Conference (APSEC). approaches to software quality These are the past workshop editions: • Tools, infrastructure, and environments supporting • 11th QuASoQ 2023 quantitative approaches Seoul, Korea | CEUR Vol-3612 • Empirical studies, evaluation, and comparison of measurement techniques and models • 10th QuASoQ 2022 • Quantitative approaches to test process improve- virtual (Japan) | CEUR Vol-3330 ment, test strategies, or testability • Empirical evaluations or comparisons of testing tech- • 9th QuASoQ 2021 niques in industrial settings virtual (Taiwan) | CEUR Vol-3062 • Mining software repositories • 8th QuASoQ 2020 Overall, the workshop aimed to bring together re- virtual (Singapore) | CEUR Vol-2767 searchers and practitioners to discuss their experiences in applying state-of-the-art approaches to measuring, assess- • 7th QuASoQ 2019 ing, and evaluating the quality of software systems and Putrayaya, Malaysia | CEUR Vol-2511 software development processes in general and software test processes in particular. • 6th QuASoQ 2018 As software development organizations are constantly Nara, Japan | CEUR Vol-2273 forced to develop software in the "right" quality, quality specification and quality assurance are crucial. Although there are many approaches to dealing with quantitative • 5th QuASoQ 2017 quality aspects, choosing a suitable set of techniques that Nanjing, China | CEUR Vol-2017 best fit the specific project and organizational constraints is still challenging. • 4th QuASoQ 2016 Even though approaches, methods, and techniques have Hamilton, New Zealand | CEUR Vol-1771 been known for quite some time, little effort has been spent exchanging real-world problems with quantitative • 3rd QuASoQ 2015 approaches. For example, only limited research has been New Delhi, India |CEUR Vol-1519 devoted to empirically evaluating the risks, efficiency, or limitations of different testing techniques in industrial set- • 2nd QuASoQ 2014 tings. Jeju, Korea | IEEE Xplore QuASoQ 2024: 12th International Workshop on Quantitative Approaches to Software Quality, December 03, 2024, Chongqing, China • 1st QuASoQ 2013 $ lichter@swc.rwth-aachen.de (H. Lichter); Bangkok, Thailand | IEEE Xplore wild@swc.rwth-aachen.de (N. Wild); thanwadee.sun@mahidol.ac.th (T. Sunetnanta); toni.anwar@utp.edu.my (T. Anwar) Since the first edition, 79 papers have been presented; the € https://www.swc.rwth-aachen.de (H. Lichter); average acceptance rate is 78 %. The chart shown in figure https://www.swc.rwth-aachen.de (N. Wild); 1 depicts where the authors of accepted papers come from. https://www.ict.mahidol.ac.th (T. Sunetnanta); https://www.utp.edu.my (T. Anwar)  0000-0002-3440-1238 (H. Lichter); 0009-0003-6077-8535 (N. Wild); 0000-0002-1436-0352 (T. Sunetnanta); 0000-0002-0390-8749 (T. Anwar) © 2024 Copyright for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). CEUR ceur-ws.org Workshop ISSN 1613-0073 Proceedings 1 • Md Arif Hasan and Toukir Ahammed Understanding the Prevalence of Test Smells in Open-source and Industrial Software: An Empirical Study on Python Projects • Sheng Zou, Liqian Chen, Guangsheng Fan, Renjie Huang and Banghu Yin F-IKOS: An Abstract Interpretation-based Static Analyzer for Fortran Programs • Ramita Deeprom, Shiyu Yang, Yoshiki Higo, Morakot Choetkiertikul and Chaiyong Ragkhitwet- sagul Challenges in Adopting LLaMA: An Empirical Study of Discussions on Stack Overflow • Nasir Mehmood Minhas, Javed Iqbal and Saif Ur Figure 1: Origin of QuASoQ authors Rehman Khan Requirements Engineering Practices Model to Incorpo- rate ’Power’ Human Value 3. Workshop Format • Jianing Sun, Jiahui Wang, Yuyan Zhu, Xingyu Li, After a successful workshop in Seoul, we were delighted to Ying Xie and Jiaxin Chen hold it again in Chongqing, China, as part of the 31st APSEC A Novel Approach to Automated Test Script Generation 2024 conference. However, one author couldn’t get a visa using Large Language Models for Domain-Specific in his home country in time, so his presentation had to be Languages held on Zoom. Based on our former experience, we wanted the workshop to be highly interactive. To have an exciting and interactive 5. Acknowledgments event sharing lots of experience, we organized the workshop presentations applying the author-discussant model. Many people contributed to this workshop’s success. First, According to this workshop model, papers are presented we want to thank the authors and presenters of the accepted by one of the authors. After the presentation, a discussant papers. Furthermore, we want to express our gratitude to starts the discussion based on pre-formulated questions. the APSEC 2024 workshop organizers; they did a perfect Therefore, the discussant had to prepare questions and know job and supported us in running the workshop. the presented paper’s details. The general structure of each As none of the workshop chairs could attend, Nils Wild talk was as follows: from RWTH Aachen University chaired it. Many thanks to Nils for representing the chairs and heading the workshop. • The paper’s author presented the paper (20 minutes). Finally, we are glad that these people served on the pro- • After that, the paper’s discussant opened the discus- gram committee (most of them for many years) and sup- sion using their questions. ported the workshop by soliciting papers and writing peer • Finally, we moderated the discussion among the au- reviews: dience (5 minutes). • Thanwadee Sunetnanta The presentations were divided into two sessions, with a Mahidol University, Thailand coffee break in between. A chair accompanied each session • Toni Anwar and ensured the schedule was followed. UTP Seri Iskander, Malaysia • Hironori Washizaki Waseda University, Japan 4. Workshop Contributions • Nasir Mehmood Minhas The following seven papers, covering very different topics, Mälardalen University, Sweden were submitted and accepted by the program committee for • Jin-Hua Li presentation and publication (the speaker is set in bold). Qingdao University, China • Hongyu Zhang • Selin Aydin, Dennis Mertens and Ouyu Xu Chongqing University, China An Automated Evaluation Approach for Jupyter • Taratip Suwannasart Notebook Code Cell Recommender Systems Chulalongkorn University, Thailand • Wan Mohd Nasir Wan-Kadir • Takumi Katsuie, Shinpei Ogata, Kozo Okano, UTM Johor Bahru, Malaysia Yukako Iimura and Shinobu Saito • Sansiri Tanachutiwat A Report on Sentiment Analysis of Requirements Thai German Graduate School of Engineering, TGGS, Engineering Artifacts created in University Course Thailand • Apinporn Methawachananont NECTEC, Thailand 2 • Ana Nicolaescu Daimler AG, Germany • Maria Spichkova RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia • Minxue Pan Nanjing University, China • Lov Kumar BITS-PILANI, Hyderabad, India • Simon Hacks Stockholm University, Sweden 3