Bridging the gap between end-user expectations, vendors' business prospects, and software engineers' requirements on the ground.
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 behaviour 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 1 http://ceur-ws.org 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.
• Automated Quality Defect Detection in Software Development Documents, Andreas Dautovic, Reinhold Ploesch and Matthias Saft.
• Design Pattern Detection using Software Metrics and Machine Learning, Satoru Uchiyama, Atsuto Kubo, Hironori Washizaki and Yoshiaki Fukazawa.
• Using the Tropos Methodology to Increase the Quality of Software Design, Andrea Capiluppi and Cornelia Boldyreff.
• Tool-Supported Estimation of Software Evolution Effort in Service-Oriented Systems, Johannes Stammel and Mircea Trifu.
• Preparing for a Literature Survey of Software Architecture using Formal Concept Analysis, Luís Couto,
We are grateful to all members of the Program Committee and to their sub-reviewers for helping to make SQM 2011 a success. Many thanks to Carl Worms for his keynote talk. Also we would like to thank the Software Improvement Group for sponsoring and hosting our website, and Easy-Chair.org for their invaluable conference organization tool. February 2011, Magiel Bruntink and Kostas Kontogiannis Chairs SQM 2011
Miguel Alexandre Ferreira, Eric Bouwers and José Nuno Oliveira.
• Evidence for the Pareto principle in Open Source Software Activity, Mathieu Goeminne and Tom Mens.
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