A view of 20th and 21st century software engineering

摘要

We welcome you to the Twenty-Eighth International Conference onSoftware Engineering and Shanghai, China. This is the firstinstance of the ICSE conference series to be held in China, and itis an exciting time and place for ICSE 2006.>The conference brings researchers, educators, practitioners andstudents together to present, exchange ideas and engage indiscussions about the recent and exciting innovations and researchin software engineering. Exciting sessions on practical experience,educational issues, and doctoral and new faculty symposia have beenorganized. The conference also includes a wide variety of tutorial,workshops and demonstration offerings. Finally, since research andmarkets in our host country China are continuously growing, ICSEincludes a separate Far East Track for discussions on thecontributions and challenges of our Chinese colleagues. We trustthat this mix will provide interesting and stimulating offerings toall members of our growing community.>The technical program committee is pleased to present thisconference proceeding that contains the research papers of thetechnical program for ICSE 2006. The technical program for thisconference focuses on new and innovative software engineeringcontributions in theory, formal methods, system building andempirical studies. The papers represent an alluring array oftopics, including software design, architecture, reuse, testing,analysis, processes and formal methods.>Because of the growing number of paper submission and theresulting large program committees in the past, we instituted a newtwo-phase reviewing process this year. Our program committee had 36members. In the first phase, each submitted paper was reviewed by 3reviewers: 2 from the program committee and an external reviewerfrom the software engineering community. We had 265 externalreviewers who contributed 370 reviews for this phase. Those papersreceiving the best reviews were considered in the second phase. Atotal of 99 papers entered the second phase. Each of these paperswas reviewed by another program committee member. Thus, eachaccepted paper had a total of 4 reviews (3 reviews from pc membersand 1 review from an external reviewer). Each rejected paper had atleast 3 reviews. The pc members reviewed 24-25 papers in the twophases, a reasonable number. We feel that this system worked verywell.>The program committee met for two days in December, 2005 inFrankfurt, Germany. By the end of the meeting, a consensus emergedfor the 36 papers in this proceedings (9% of the totalsubmissions). There were many high quality submissions that couldnot be accommodated in the program; hopefully a revised versionwill be published elsewhere.>In addition to the papers, we organized four invited sessions.One invited session focuses on empirical studies, an increasinglyimportant component of software engineering research and practice.We also have an invited panel that addresses the value and practiceof formal methods. Since software engineering techniques aregrowing in importance in challenging safety critical domains, weincluded two invited sessions: one on software engineering forautomotive engineering and the other on software engineering forassisted living.>We are very pleased that a notably diverse and outstanding groupof three leaders of the software engineering community have agreedto present keynote speeches. The opening day keynote will bepresented by Prof. Yang Fuqing, from Peking University, a woman whohas been at the very forefront of the software engineeringcommunities of research and practice in China for decades. Herperspectives on the past and future of software engineering inChina will be complemented by a keynote on similar themes presentedon the second day. This second keynote will be delivered by Prof.Barry Boehm, from the University of Southern California, USA. Histalk will review the history of software engineering research andpractice in the West over the past decades, and p