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https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-708/sqm2011-preface.pdf
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.
Magiel Bruntink Kostas Kontogiannis
Software Improvement Group School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Netherlands National Technical University of Athens
m.bruntink@sig.eu Greece
kkontog@softlab.ece.ntua.gr
Preface quality software is becoming not just a competitive advan-
tage but a necessary factor for companies to be successful.
The fifth international workshop on Software Quality The main question that arises now is how quality is mea-
and Maintainability (SQM 2011) offered a forum to re- sured. What, where and when we assess and assure quality,
searchers to present their original work and to practitioners are still open issues. Many views have been expressed about
to relate their experiences on issues pertaining to software software quality attributes, including maintainability, evolv-
quality and maintainability. Moreover, the theme of the ability, portability, robustness, reliability, usability, and ef-
workshop invited discussion on how to bridge the gap be- ficiency. These have been formulated in standards such as
tween end user expectations, business requirements, vendor ISO/IEC-9126 and CMMI. However, the debate about qual-
performance, and engineering constraints regarding soft- ity and maintainability between software producers, ven-
ware quality. dors and users is ongoing, while organizations need the abil-
SQM 2011 was held as a satellite event of the 15th Eu- ity to evaluate the software systems that they use or develop
ropean Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengi- from multiple angles.
neering (CSMR 2011). In 2010, the fourth SQM workshop So, is ”Software quality in the eye of the beholder”? This
was held as a satellite event of CSMR 2010. workshop session aims at feeding into this debate by estab-
Carl Worms of Credit Suisse kicked-off the workshop lishing what the state of the practice and the way forward
with an invited talk titled ”Software Quality Management - is.
Quo Vadis?” A short paper describing his current work is
included in these proceedings. Accepted papers
In this volume, you will further find the papers accepted
for presentation at the workshop. Out of 8 full-paper sub- • Automated Quality Defect Detection in Software De-
missions, 6 papers were selected. The accepted papers were velopment Documents, Andreas Dautovic, Reinhold
published at CEUR-WS1 . Ploesch and Matthias Saft.
Theme & Goals • Design Pattern Detection using Software Metrics and
Machine Learning, Satoru Uchiyama, Atsuto Kubo,
Hironori Washizaki and Yoshiaki Fukazawa.
Software is playing a crucial role in modern societies.
Not only do people rely on it for their daily operations or • Using the Tropos Methodology to Increase the Qual-
business, but for their lives as well. For this reason, cor- ity of Software Design, Andrea Capiluppi and Cornelia
rect and consistent behaviour of software systems is a fun- Boldyreff.
damental part of end user expectations. Additionally, busi-
nesses require cost-effective production, maintenance, and • Tool-Supported Estimation of Software Evolution Ef-
operation of their systems. Thus, the demand for good qual- fort in Service-Oriented Systems, Johannes Stammel
ity software is increasing and is setting it as a differentiator and Mircea Trifu.
for the success or failure of a software product. In fact, high
• Preparing for a Literature Survey of Software Archi-
1 http://ceur-ws.org tecture using Formal Concept Analysis, Luı́s Couto,
Miguel Alexandre Ferreira, Eric Bouwers and José • Christos Tjortjis, University of Ioannina & University
Nuno Oliveira. of Western Macedonia, Greece
• Evidence for the Pareto principle in Open Source Soft- • Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, University of Macedonia,
ware Activity, Mathieu Goeminne and Tom Mens. Greece
• Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, Universidad Rey Juan
Organization Carlos, Spain
Chairs • Rudolf Ferenc, University of Szeged, Hungary
• Magiel Bruntink, Software Improvement Group, The
Sub-reviewers
Netherlands
• Markus Buschle
• Kostas Kontogiannis, National Technical University of
Athens, Greece • Péter Hegedüs
• Miguel Alexandre Ferreira (publicity chair), Software • Giuseppe Scanniello
Improvement Group, The Netherlands
• Gabriella Tóth
Program Committee
Sponsors
• Árpád Beszédes, University of Szeged, Hungary
• Andrea De Lucia, University of Salerno, Italy Software Improvement Group
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Florian Deissenboeck, Technische Universität
München, Germany
• Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy
Acknowledgements
• Juergen Ebert, University of Koblenz-Landau, Ger-
many We are grateful to all members of the Program Committee
and to their sub-reviewers for helping to make SQM 2011
• Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University, the Netherlands a success. Many thanks to Carl Worms for his keynote talk.
Also we would like to thank the Software Improvement
• Rainer Koschke, University of Bremen, Germany
Group for sponsoring and hosting our website, and Easy-
• Robert Lagerström, the Royal Institute of Technology, Chair.org for their invaluable conference organization tool.
Sweden
February 2011,
• Radu Marinescu, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Magiel Bruntink and Kostas Kontogiannis
Romania Chairs SQM 2011
• Liam O’Brien, National ICT Australia Limited, Aus-
tralia
• Ladan Tahvildari, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Arie van Deursen, Delft University of Technology, the
Netherlands
• Jurgen Vinju, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, the
Netherlands
• Joost Visser, Software Improvement Group, the
Netherlands
• Carl Worms, Credit Suisse, Switzerland
• Hongyu Zhang, Tsinghua University, China