Balancing Agility and Formalism in Software Engineering

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second IFIP TC 2 Central and East Conference on Software Engineering Techniques, CEE-SET 2007, held in Poznan, Poland, in October 2007.

The 21 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote addresses were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on measurement, processes, UML, experiments, tools, and change.

Inhalt

Keynotes.- Agile Software Development at Scale.- Formalisms in Software Engineering: Myths Versus Empirical Facts.- Measurement.- Extending GQM by Argument Structures.- On Metamodel-Based Design of Software Metrics.- Automatic Transactions Identification in Use Cases.- Processes.- A Collaborative Method for Reuse Potential Assessment in Reengineering-Based Product Line Adoption.- Corporate-, Agile- and Open Source Software Development: A Witch's Brew or An Elixir of Life?.- Capable Leader and Skilled and Motivated Team Practices to Introduce eXtreme Programming.- UML.- Platform-Independent Programming of Data-Intensive Applications Using UML.- Towards UML-Intensive Framework for Model-Driven Development.- UML Static Models in Formal Approach.- Experiments.- Does Test-Driven Development Improve the Program Code? Alarming Results from a Comparative Case Study.- Measuring the Human Factor with the Rasch Model.- Empirical Analysis of a Distributed Software Development Project.- Tools.- Extending Software Architecting Processes with Decision-Making Activities.- A Tool for Supporting Feature-Driven Development.- In-Time Role-Specific Notification as Formal Means to Balance Agile Practices in Global Software Development Settings.- Best Papers Session.- An Integrated Approach for Identifying Relevant Factors Influencing Software Development Productivity.- A Framework for QoS Contract Negotiation in Component-Based Applications.- A Case Study on the Impact of Refactoring on Quality and Productivity in an Agile Team.- Change.- Modeling of Requirements Tracing.- Support for Cooperative Design of End-User Tailorable Software.- Manifoldness of Variability Modeling - Considering the Potential for Further Integration.