4th ICSE Workshop on

“Software Engineering over the Internet”

Frank Maurer Department of Computer Science

University of Calgary 2500 University Drive NW

Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4 maurer@cpsc.ucalgary.ca

Abstract The 4th ICSE workshop on “Software Engineering over the Internet” brings together researchers and practitioners that try to use Internet technologies to overcome problems in distributed software development. The goal of the workshop is to exchange ideas how distributed projects can utilize the Internet to overcome communication, collaboration, and coordination problems.

Keywords Internet, Software Engineering

1. Workshop description

Following the successful ICSE 1998-2000 workshops on “Software Engineering over the Internet” [1, 2, 3], the 4th workshop of the series will focus on experience reports and evaluation.

As large companies are widely deploying web-based software process support environments, the goal of the workshop is to discuss lessons learnt using industrial case- studies as a major focus. Distributed projects are always a challenge for project managers and developers. Web-based software process support environments help people from physically distributed locations to collaborate in the development of software systems. They cover management issues as well as the improving the execution of technical tasks.

In this workshop, we want to bring together researchers and practitioners who share a vision of "Software engineering over the Internet" and want to discuss how

distributed teams can effectively and efficiently work together. Questions that we would like to address during the workshop are:

• What lessons were learnt from deploying web-based process support environments? What are their benefits and shortcomings? What empirical data is available on their successes and failures?

• How can virtual software enterprises be efficiently formed and effectively work?

• What are the benefits and merits of open-source projects? What can “normal” projects learn from the open-source approach and vice versa?

• How effective is distributed software development compared to co-located development?

• What are the problems special to distributed software engineering projects and how can we make use of the Internet to solve them?

• What methods and tools do we need to support software projects over the Internet?

Workshop presentations focus on Internet-based support systems for software development or management, or report about practical experiences and lessons learned in web-based software process support.

Presentations cover all phases of software engineering: e.g. requirements engineering, system analysis, design, testing, implementation, and maintenance.

Workshop topics are

• empirical evaluations of web-based process support

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• empirical evaluations of the effectiveness of distributed software projects

• project management in distributed SE projects

• discussion of the open-source approach

• technologies for building Internet-based process sensitive software engineering environments

• web-based software support environments

• distributed data repositories

• knowledge management for SE projects

• internet-based experience factories

• groupware support for software development

• Internet-based around-the-clock software development

• distributed testing environments

• collaborative system analysis and design

• internet-based problem tracking tools

• electronic commerce for software components

Presentations explicate the technical issues related to the Internet or present empirical results. Research papers demonstrate the feasibility of the approach and describe the state of realization. Case studies and applied papers discuss key factors that made the system work and successful. They also mention the pitfalls and problems encountered.

2. Organizing committee

Frank Maurer, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, maurer@cpsc.ucalgary.ca, Canada, (Primary contact).

Barbara Dellen, Avinci - The Know-How Company, Barbara.Dellen@avinci.de, Germany .

John Grundy, Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, john-g@cs.auckland.ac.nz , New Zealand.

Boris Kötting, Department of Computer Science, University of Kaiserlautern, koetting@informatik.uni-kl.de, Germany.

3. References

[1] First Workshop on “Software Engineering over the Internet”. Web proceedings available at http://sern.ucalgary.ca/~maurer/ICSE98WS/ICSE98WS.html

[2] Second Workshop on “Software Engineering over the Internet”. Web proceedings available at http://sern.ucalgary.ca/~maurer/ICSE99WS/ICSE99WS.html

[3] Third Workshop on “Software Engineering over the Internet”. Web proceedings available at http://sern.ucalgary.ca/~maurer/icse2000ws/ICSE2000WS.htm

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