Overview

Measures of software internal attributes have been extensively used to help software managers, customers and users to characterize, assess, and improve the quality of software products. Many software companies have intensively adopted software measures to increase their understandability of how (and how much) software internal attributes affect the overall software quality. Estimation models based on software measures have successfully been used to perform risk analysis and to assess software maintainability, reusability and reliability. Although most of the known work apply to object-oriented systems it is also desirable to find measures for component-based development and for web technology in general.

List of Topics

Submissions are invited, but not limited, to the following topics, organized in three areas:

Area C (Measure Collection and Measure-Based Analysis)

* Measures for object-oriented systems, component-based systems, aspect-oriented systems, model-driven design, or web-based systems
* Theories and standards for collection, comparison and validation of measures
* Evaluation of measures and tools and their integration in CASE-tools
* Automatic support for collecting measures, sharing research hypotheses and results
* Measure collection in the development process (measurement planning)
* Measure-based visualization
* Measure-based analysis of evolution
* Public repositories for measurement data

Area A (Quality Assessment)

* Measuring non-functional requirements of OO and related systems
* Quantitative design heuristics
* Measure-based reengineering
* Quantitative assessment of design patterns, frameworks, behavioural models, and database schemata
* Evaluating the ROI of adopting product measurement and quality programs
* Quantitative and qualitative analysis of software repositories
* Quantitative analysis of evolution of software systems

Area P (Process Management)

* Reliability and rework effort estimates based on design measures
* Reuse evaluation
* Resource estimation models for OO and Component Based Systems development
* Quantitative tracking of OO, web services, and CBS development activities
* Empirical studies on the use of measures for process management
* Measurement support in a component-based development life cycle



We explicitly solicit position papers related to these topics were, which were identified as important open research issues in QAOOSE 2008 workshop as well as papers that document and/or motivate the use of quantitative methods in industrial software processes.

Participant Profile

This workshop will be of interest to researchers in and practitioners of software quality, object-oriented methodologies, software measures, reuse, frameworks, analysis, design, and programming, as well as to anyone interested in the management of development projects.

Program Preview

This workshop will provide a forum to discuss the current state of the art and of the practice in the field of quantitative approaches in object-oriented software engineering. A blend of researchers and practitioners from academia and industry is expected to share recent advances in the field: success or failure, lessons learned—and seek to identify new fundamental problems arising in the field and potential solutions. The workshop format will include the (short) presentations of selected submitted papers and a plenary working session for summarizing, evaluating, and assembling new research results and identifying future research opportunities.

Submission Details

Potential attendees must submit a position paper or experience report in English to the workshop organizers. All submissions must include the authors’ names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses. Authors must indicate the area(s) and/or topic(s) addressed in the submitted paper. Only authors of accepted submissions will be invited to participate in the workshop. The workshop organizers will select a subgroup of the accepted submissions for oral presentations. All accepted submissions will be included in the workshop proceedings.

Submission Format

Papers must be written in English using the TOOLS format (LNCS).

File format: PDF

Important Dates

Submission of position papers due: March 31, 2010

Notification of acceptance: May 14, 2010

Preliminary Program available: TBD

Contact Information

Submissions address: qaoose@iro.umontreal.ca with copy to vauchers@iro.umontreal.ca

Workshop web site: http://qaoose.iro.umontreal.ca