Guest Editors' introduction to the special section of the 16th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC2009)

摘要

The 16th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (AP-SEC2009) was held in Penang, Malaysia during December 1-December 3, 2009. As it has been in the last decade, APSEC is the major international conference in the Asia-Pacific region for software engineering researchers and practitioners. APSEC2009 received 248 abstracts of which 209 authors submitted full papers from 31 countries across the world including 15 countries from the Asia-Pacific region, 13 from Europe, two from North and South America, and one from Africa. All papers were reviewed by the program committee members and co-reviewers from 12 different countries. We finally accepted 63 papers with an acceptance rate of 30%. The papers cover the area of requirements engineering (12 papers), software testing (12 papers), verification and validation (seven papers), software design (five papers), aspect-oriented programming (two papers), project management (four papers), software architecture (four papers), software process (four papers), software maintenance (four papers), and program analysis (four papers). We are very grateful to the authors who contributed to APSEC2009.