ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 29

Volume 29, Number 1, January 2004

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  Jozo J. Dujmovic, Virgílio A. F. Almeida, Doug Lea:
  Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Software and Performance, WOSP 2004, Redwood Shores, California, USA, January 14-16, 2004. ACM 2004 [contents]

Volume 29, Number 2, March 2004

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  Will Tracz:
  Front matter (letters and notices). 0-6

Columns

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  Peter B. Henderson:
  Software engineering education (SEEd). 6-8
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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Risks to the public in computers and related systems. 8-16
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  Mark Doernhoefer:
  Surfing the Net for software engineering notes. 17-26

Workshop and conference summaries

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  Andrew Walenstein, Arun Lakhotia, Rainer Koschke:
  The Second International Workshop on Detection of Software Clones: workshop report. 1-5
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  Catharine M. Wyss, Anne E. James, Wilhelm Hasselbring, Stefan Conrad, Hagen Höpfner:
  Report on the Engineering Federated Information Systems 2003 workshop (EFIS 2003). 1-3
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  Vincenzo Gervasi, Didar Zowghi, Steve M. Easterbrook, Susan Elliott Sim:
  Report on the First International Workshop on Comparative Evaluation in Requirements Engineering. 1-4

Papers

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  Rakesh Agarwal, Amrita Deo, Swati Das:
  Intelligent agents in E-learning. 1
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  Ana Isabel Cardoso, Rui Gustavo Crespo, Peter Kokol:
  Assessing software structure by entropy and information density. 2
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  Leona F. Fass:
  Approximations, anomalies and "the proof of correctness wars". 3
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  Nasib Singh Gill, P. S. Grover:
  Few important considerations for deriving interface complexity metric for component-based systems. 4
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  Bing Guo, Yan Shen, Jun Xie, Yong Wang, Guang-Ze Xiong:
  A kind of new ToolBus model research and implementation. 5
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  Talha Javed, Manzil e Maqsood, Qaiser S. Durrani:
  A survey to examine the effect of team communication on job satisfaction in software industry. 6
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  S. Kanmani, V. Rhymend Uthariaraj, V. Sankaranarayanan, P. Thambidurai:
  Investigation into the exploitation of Object-Oriented features. 7
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  Jian Lu:
  Some research on componentware frameworks based on mobile agent technology. 8
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  Clive Rosen:
  Non-directive software engineering. 9
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  Takao Shimomura:
  A page-transition framework for image-oriented Web programming. 10
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  Andrey A. Terekhov:
  Dealing with architectural issues: a case study. 11
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  Antti Tevanlinna, Juha Taina, Raine Kauppinen:
  Product family testing: a survey. 12
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  Yuming Zhou, Jiangtao Lu, Hongmin Lu, Baowen Xu:
  A comparative study of graph theory-based class cohesion measures. 13

Book reviews

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  Mordechai Ben-Menachem:
  Review of "IT project estimation: a practical guide to the costing of software" by Paul Coombs. Cambridge University Press 2003. 31
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  Gregory H. Harris:
  Review of "Abstract state machines: a method for high-level system design and analysis" by Egon Börger and Robert Stärk. Springer-Verlag 2003. 31-32
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  James Law:
  Review of "The description logic handbook" by Franz Bader, Diego Calvanese, Deborah L. McGuinness, Daniele Nardi, Peter Patel-Schneider. Cambridge University Press 2003. 32-33
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  James Law:
  Review of "Term rewriting systems" by Mark Bezem, Jan Willem Klop, and Roel de Vrijer. Cambridge University Press 2003. 33
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  Isaac Pentinmaki:
  Review of "Lean software development: an agile tookit" by Mary and Tom Poppendieck. Addison Wesley 2003. 33

Volume 29, Number 3, May 2004

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  Will Tracz:
  Frontmatter (letters and notices). 0-4

Software engineering education

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  Peter B. Henderson:
  Software engineering education (SEEd). 5-6

Risks to the public

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Risks to the public in computers and related systems. 7-14

Surfing the net for software engineering notes

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  Mark Doernhoefer:
  Surfing the net for software engineering notes. 15-24

Short papers

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  Russell Ovans:
  The programmer life-cycle. 25-26

Workshop and conference summaries

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  Ivica Crnkovic, Heinz W. Schmidt, Judith A. Stafford, Kurt C. Wallnau:
  6th ICSE Workshop on Component-Based Software Engineering: automated reasoning and prediction. 1-7
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  Daniel M. Berry, Rick Kazman, Roel J. Wieringa:
  Second International Workshop on From SofTware Requirements to Architectures (STRAW'03). 1-5

Article abstracts with full text online

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  K. K. Aggarwal, Yogesh Singh, Arvinder Kaur, Omprakash Sangwan:
  A neural net based approach to Test Oracle. 1-6
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  Emerson F. A. Lima, Patrícia D. L. Machado, Fláavio R. Sampaio, Jorge C. A. de Figueiredo:
  An approach to modelling and applying mobile agent design patterns. 1-8
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  Muthu Ramachandran, Domenic Mangano:
  Knowledge based reasoning for software architectural design strategies. 1-4
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  Talha Javed, Manzil e Maqsood, Qaiser S. Durrani:
  A study to investigate the impact of requirements instability on software defects. 1-7
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  D. Janaki Ram, P. Jithendra Kumar Reddy, M. S. Rajasree:
  Pattern hybridization: breeding new designs out of pattern interactions. 1-10
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  Flávio Oquendo:
  pi-ADL: an Architecture Description Language based on the higher-order typed pi-calculus for specifying dynamic and mobile software architectures. 1-14

Book review

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  Joseph M. Saur:
  Review of "Software by numbers: low-risk, high-return development" by Mark Denne and Jane Cleland-Huang. Prentice Hall 2004. 29-30
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  Joseph M. Saur:
  Review of "Software engineering measurement" by John C. Munson. Auerbach Publications 2003. 30
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  Joseph M. Saur:
  Review of "Critical testing processes: plan, prepare, perform, perfect" by Rex Black. Addison-Wesley 2004. 30

Volume 29, Number 4, July 2004

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  George S. Avrunin, Gregg Rothermel:
  Proceedings of the ACM/SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, ISSTA 2004, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 11-14, 2004. ACM 2004, ISBN 1-58113-820-2 [contents]

Volume 29, Number 5, September 2004

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  Will Tracz:
  Frontmatter (TOC, Letters, Frank David Anger, ACM Fellow Profile, ICSE 2005, Praise and Criticism, Some Thoughts on Software Reliability, Latest DoD Effort to Achieve Quality in Software, Software Engineering Education). 0

Software engineering education

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  Peter B. Henderson:
  Software engineering education (SEEd). 12-13

Risks to the public

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Risks to the public in computers and related systems. 13-18

Surfing the net for software engineering notes

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  Mark Doernhoefer:
  Surfing the net for software engineering notes. 20-28

Workshop on testing, analysis and verification of web services (TAV-WEB) papers

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  Mariya Koshkina, Franck van Breugel:
  Modelling and verifying web service orchestration by means of the concurrency workbench. 1-10
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  Robert J. Hall, Andrea Zisman:
  Model interchange and integration for web services. 1-11
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  Gleb Naumovich, Paolina Centonze:
  Static analysis of role-based access control in J2EE applications. 1-10
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  Jeff Offutt, Wuzhi Xu:
  Generating test cases for web services using data perturbation. 1-10
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  Yuetang Deng, Phyllis G. Frankl, Jiong Wang:
  Testing web database applications. 1-10

Workshop on empirical research in software testing papers

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  Anil Chawla, Alessandro Orso:
  A generic instrumentation framework for collecting dynamic information. 1-4
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  Jeff Offutt, Yuan Yang, Jane Huffman Hayes:
  SEEWeb: making experimental artifacts available. 1-3
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  Robert M. Hierons:
  A flexible environment to evaluate state-based test techniques. 1-3
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  Roy Patrick Tan, Stephen H. Edwards:
  Experiences evaluating the effectiveness of JML-JUnit testing. 1-4
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  Laurie A. Williams:
  On the need for a process for making reliable quality comparisons with industrial data. 1-4
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  Roger T. Alexander, James M. Bieman, Robert B. France:
  A software engineering research repository. 1-4
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  Hyunsook Do, Sebastian G. Elbaum, Gregg Rothermel:
  Building an infrastructure to support experimentation with software testing techniques. 1-4
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  Antonia Bertolino:
  The (Im)maturity level of software testing. 1-4
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  Lionel C. Briand, Yvan Labiche:
  Empirical studies of software testing techniques: challenges, practical strategies, and future research. 1-3
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  Jeff Offutt, Yu-Seung Ma, Yong Rae Kwon:
  An experimental mutation system for Java. 1-4
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  James H. Andrews:
  Relevant empirical testing research: challenges and responses. 1-4
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  Natalia Juristo Juzgado, Ana María Moreno, Sira Vegas:
  Towards building a solid empirical body of knowledge in testing techniques. 1-4
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  Birgitta Lindström, Mats Grindal, A. Jefferson Offutt:
  Using an existing suite of test objects: experience from a testing experiment. 1-3
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  Pat McGee, Cem Kaner:
  Experiments with high volume test automation. 1-3
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  Mechelle Gittens, Hanan Lutfiyya, Michael A. Bauer:
  Continuous evolutionary one-step-ahead testing. 1-4

Workshop and conference summaries

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  Karl Cox, Jon G. Hall, Lucia Rapanotti:
  1^st international workshop on advances and applications of problem frames - summary. 1-3
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  Dietmar Pfahl, David Raffo, Ioana Rus, Paul Wernick:
  Report on ProSim'04: the 5th international workshop on software process simulation and modeling. 1-6
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  Elizabeth Hargreaves, Daniela E. Damian, Filippo Lanubile, James Chisan:
  Global software development: building a research community. 1-5
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  Alexander Pretschner, Christian Salzmann, Thomas Stauner:
  Software engineering for automotive systems at ICSE 2004 workshop summary. 1-2
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  David Evans, Raimondas Lencevicius:
  ICSE 2004 workshop summary second international workshop on dynamic analysis (WODA 2004). 1-2
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  John C. Grundy, Ray Welland, Hermann Stoeckle:
  Workshop on directions in software engineering environments (WoDiSEE). 1-3
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  Eric Dubois, Xavier Franch:
  International workshop on models and processes for the evaluation of COTS components (MPEC'04). 1-3
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  Ricardo Choren, Alessandro Garcia, Carlos José Pereira de Lucena, Martin L. Griss, David Chenho Kung, Naftaly H. Minsky, Alexander B. Romanovsky, Jaelson Brelaz de Castro, Rogério de Lemos, Danny Weyns:
  Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems - SELMAS 2004: workshop report. 1-10

Article abstracts with full text online

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  Johann Rost:
  Is "Factory Method" really a pattern? 1
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  K. K. Aggarwal, Yogesh Singh, Arvinder Kaur:
  Code coverage based technique for prioritizing test cases for regression testing. 1-4
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  Pankaj Bhatt, Gautam Shroff, Arun Kumar Misra:
  Dynamics of software maintenance. 1-5
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  Guoqing Xu, Zongyuan Yang, Haitao Huang:
  A basic model for components implementation of software architecture. 1-11
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  Jason Aiken:
  Technical and human perspectives on pair programming. 1-14
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  Nasib Singh Gill, P. S. Grover:
  Software size prediction before coding. 1-4
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  Tong Yi, Fangjun Wu, Chengzhi Gan:
  A comparison of metrics for UML class diagrams. 1-6
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  Fangjun Wu, Tong Yi:
  Measuring Z specifications. 1-5
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  Tong Yi, Fangjun Wu:
  Empirical analysis of entropy distance metric for UML class diagrams. 1-6
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  S. Kanmani, V. Rhymend Uthariaraj, V. Sankaranarayanan, P. Thambidurai:
  Object oriented software quality prediction using general regression neural networks. 1-6
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  Brad Long:
  Sorting non-key fields in the distributed result set iterator pattern. 1-2
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  Flávio Oquendo:
  Formally refining software architectures with pi-ARL: a case study. 1-26
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  Guido Rotondi:
  Assessment methodologies for public contractors. 1-6
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  Flávio Oquendo:
  pi-ARL: an architecture refinement language for formally modelling the stepwise refinement of software architectures. 1-20

Book reviews

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  Charles Beasley:
  Review of "Building operational excellence: IT people and best practices by Bruce Allen and Dale Kutnic." Intel Press and Addison-Wesley 2001 and 2002. 35
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  Ken Frazer:
  Review of "Managing software requirements, a use case approach by Dean Leffingwell and Don Widrig." Addison-Wesley 2003. 36
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  Ken Frazer:
  Review of "Use cases, requirements in context by Daryl Kulak and Eamon Guiney." Addison-Wesley 2004. 36-37
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  Brian Lawler:
  Review of "Modernizing legacy systems: software technologies, engineering processes and business practices by Robert C. Seacord, Daniel Plakosh and Grace A. Lewis." Addison Wesley 2003. 37
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  Mordechai Ben-Menachem:
  Review of "CMMI: guidelines for process integration and product improvement by Mary Beth Chrissis, Mike Konrad and Sandy Shrum." Addison Wesley 2003. 37-38
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  Mordechai Ben-Menachem:
  Review of "Software metrics: a guide to planning, analysis and application by C. Ravindranath Pandian." Auerbach Publications, CRC Press 2004. 38-39
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  Joe Saur:
  Review of "Visualizing categorical data by Michael Friendly." SAS Institute, Inc. 2000. 39-40
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  Joe Saur:
  Review of "SASÒ for monte carlo studies: a guide for quantitative researchers by Xitao Fan, Ákos Felsvlyi, Stephen A. Sivo, and Sean C. Keenan." SAS Institute, Inc. 2002. 39
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  Will Tracz:
  Review of "Managing software for growth: without fear, control, and the manufacturing mindset by Roy Miller." Addison-Wesley 2003. 40-41
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  Debora Weber-Wulff:
  Review of "Requirements by collaboration - workshops for defining needs by Ellen Gottesdiener." Addison Wesley 2002. 40
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  Debora Weber-Wulff:
  Review of "UML by example by Ghinwa Jalloul." Cambridge University Press 2004. 40
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  Will Tracz:
  Review of "Architecting enterprise solutions: patterns for high-capability internet based systems by Paul Dyson and Andy Longshaw." John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2004. 41
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  Will Tracz:
  Review of "IT project estimation: a practical guide to costing of software by Paul Coombs." Cambridge University Press 2003. 41

Volume 29, Number 6, November 2004

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  Richard N. Taylor, Matthew B. Dwyer:
  Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, 2004, Newport Beach, CA, USA, October 31 - November 6, 2004. ACM 2004, ISBN 1-58113-855-5 [contents]