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We examine the current state and problems of modeling enterprises as well as software systems and discuss a number of approaches to tackle those. In particular, we discuss how to make use of models in large development projects, where a set of ...

The costs of computing have decreased a billion times over half a century. The focus of software engineering has consequently transformed from trying to squeeze as much as possible from every compute cycle and of every bit of memory, to improving ...

In this talk, I will talk about the recent advances and challenges in concolic testing and symbolic execution. Concolic testing, also known as directed automated random testing (DART) or dynamic symbolic execution, is an efficient way to automatically ...

Software libraries and frameworks, consisting of a collection of Class and Interface definitions, provide a mechanism for code reuse by providing methods, APIs, components (generic functionality) and a support structure for developers to build ...

Resolution of problem tickets is a source of significant revenue in the worldwide software services industry. Due to the high volume of problem tickets in any large scale customer engagement, automated techniques are necessary to segregate related ...

Automated machine analysis of natural language requirements poses several challenges. Complex requirements such as functional requirements and use cases are hard to parse and analyze, the language itself is un-constrained, the flow of requirements may ...

Financial services sector typically known as BFSI (Banking Financial Services and Insurance) invest substantial amount of their developmental and maintenance budget in Information Technology (IT). Client servicing, regulatory/compliance requirements, ...

As a software system evolves, maintaining the system becomes increasingly difficult. A lot of times code changes or system patches cause an existing feature to misbehave or fail completely. An issue ticket reporting a defect in a feature that was ...

This paper presents an approach to compute and visualize dependencies between elements of an industrial automation system. The various system elements are represented by a network of vertices and edges in a graph, which in turn is used for computing ...

When a complex real-world application is deployed post-release, a number of crash reports are generated. As the number of clients using the product increases, so do the crash reports. Typically, the approach followed in many software organizations is to ...

Modern web programming is plagued by a jungle of heterogeneous programming frameworks and lacks adequate abstractions for end-to-end rapid, structured, design and development. We studied the current problems faced by developers using an online survey, ...

Various automated techniques built to benefit software developers, bug triagers, stakeholders and users in open source systems, utilize information placed in issue tracking systems. The success of these techniques depends largely on the quality of ...

Software maintenance is an important aspect of software life cycle development, hence prior estimation of effort for maintainability plays a vital role. Existing approaches for maintainability estimation are mostly based on regression analysis and ...

While often defined in informal ways, class cohesion reflects important properties of modules in a software system. High cohesion for classes is one of the desirable properties in Object Oriented (OO) analysis as it supports program comprehension, ...

Several change metrics and source code metrics have been introduced and proved to be effective features in building bug prediction models. Researchers performed comparative studies of bug prediction models built using the individual metrics as well as ...

Among the code structuration mechanisms in object oriented systems, class hierarchies based on the generalization relationship play a prominent role. Indeed it is used to represent and code hierarchies of abstractions supposed to help with code ...

Reliability is an important factor of software quality. The accurate prediction of software reliability is a challenging task. There exist many reliability models to predict the reliability based on software testing activities. There are many software ...

Software Engineering (SE) educators worldwide are attempting to create learning environments that can effectively achieve their desired learning objectives. However, there exist additional needs that impact the learning process and the overall quality ...

We present a study on the naturalness of the natural language artifacts in software. Naturalness is essentially repetitiveness or predictability. By natural language artifacts, we mean source code comments, revision history messages, bug reports and so ...

To form a training set for a source-code change prediction model, e.g., using the association rule mining or machine learning techniques, commits from the source code history are needed. The traceability between releases and commits would facilitate a ...

GPUs offer a powerful bulk synchronous programming model for exploiting data parallelism; however, branch divergence amongst executing warps can lead to serious performance degradation due to execution serialization. We propose a novel profile guided ...

Test driven development, an agile programming approach, has been advocated as a promising approach for developing quality code. This approach aims at developing minimal, non-redundant code accepting only one test case at a time. However, not much has ...

Many testing organizations find themselves lagging behind the development forces on the agile journey; it is obvious for us to demand an easy integration between all software program elements developed. Do we treat our testing artifacts in the same ...

Software Processes consist of a structured set of activities performed during creation and maintenance of software products. The construction and subsequent maintenance of a software is facilitated by several applications and tools. Some of the tools ...

It is widely recognized that the systematic application of relevant design principles plays a key role in taming the complexity involved in real-world software development. In our experience as consultant architects and trainers on software architecture ...

In the Software Development Life Cycle, testing is an integral and important phase. It is estimated that close to 45% of project cost is marked for testing. Defect removal efficiency is directly proportional to the rigor of the testing and number of ...

The principal objective of modelling symposium is to help form an active community working on various aspects of modelling and its applications. The focus is on problems that would be critical 3-5 years out in future. For example, problem spaces such as ...

SEED 2015, The 1st International workshop on Software Engineering Education (co-located with India Software Engineering Conference - ISEC 2015 from 18-20 February) with a theme Evolving Body of Knowledge of Software Engineering - New ideas and ...