Day 1 - 29th September - Thematic tracks detailed program

Day 1 - 29th September - Thematic tracks detailed program

The thematic tracks run in parallel in day 1.

There are 6 full-day thematic tracks and 5 half-day thematic tracks (afternoon only).

1- Quality in ICT Verification and Validation (full-day)

Chair: Antonia Bertolino (CNR/ISTI, Italy)

Thematic Track page: Quality in ICT Verification and Validation (Full-Day Thematic Track)

Time	Title	Authors
09:00-09:30	Welcome and introduction	Antonia Bertolino, Track Chair
09:30-10:30	Keynote talk
⇒	Formal methods for V&V of Safety-critical systems	Stefania Gnesi
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:30	Model-based V&V
⇒	Synthesis-Based Loose Programming	Anna-Lena Lamprecht, Stefan Naujokat (Dortmund University of Technology), Tiziana Margaria (University of Potsdam), Bernhard Steffen (Dortmund University of Technology)
⇒	Test Coverage Analysis of UML Activity Diagrams for Interactive Systems	Ricardo Ferreira (FEUP), João Faria (FEUP / INESC Porto), Ana Paiva (FEUP)
⇒	A Formal Passive Testing Approach For Checking Real Time Constraints	Fayçal Bessayah, Ana Cavalli (TELECOM & Management / SudParis)
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:30	Test Automation
⇒	X-MuT: A Tool for the Generation of XSLT Mutants	Francesca Lonetti, Eda Marchetti (ISTI CNR)
⇒	MANTra: towards model transformation testing	Antonio Filieri, Raffaela Mirandola, Andrea Ciancone (Politecnico di Milano)
⇒	A Pluggabe/ESB-based Framework for Test Automation of Service-Based Applications	Sylvia Ilieva (Sofia University), Valentin Pavlov, Ilina Manova (Rila Solutions)
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:30	V&V in industry
⇒	Model-driven Service Integration Testing - A Case Study	Sebastian Wieczorek, Alin Stefanescu, Andreas Roth (SAP Research)
⇒	The definiton of a testing process to small-sized companies: the Brazilian scenario	Andreia Rodrigues, Plácido Pinheiro, Adriano Albuquerque (UNIFOR)
⇒	Do testers’ preferences have an impact on effectiveness?	Maria Lazaro (URJC), Natalia Juristo (UPM), Esperanza Marcos (URJC)

2- ICT Process Improvement and Assessment (full-day)

Chair: Karol Frühauf (INFOGEM AG, Switzerland)

Thematic Track page: ICT Process Improvement and Assessment (Full-Day Thematic Track)

Time	Title	Authors
09:00-10:30	Session 1: Process Improvement
⇒	MPS.BR: A Tale of Software Process Improvement and Performance Results in the Brazilian Software Industry	Gleison Santos (UNIRIO), Marcos Kalinowski (COPPE/UFRJ), Kival Chaves Weber (SOFTEX), Ana Regina Rocha, Guilherme Horta Travassos (COPPE/UFRJ) and José Antonio Antonioni (SOFTEX)
⇒	Factors Impacting Software Process Improvement in Small-Medium Sized Software Teams: a Multi-Case Analysis	Ian Allison (Robert Gordon University)
⇒	Applying Grounded Theory to Understand Software Process Improvement Implementation	Mariano Montoni and Ana Regina Rocha (COPPE/UFRJ)
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:30	Session 2: Process Assessment
⇒	A Gap Analysis Methodology for the Team Software Process	Luis Amaral (Strongstep) and João Faria (FEUP / INESC Porto)
⇒	A Method for Tri-dimensional Process Assessment using Modelling Theory	Clenio Salviano, Marcia Regina Martins Martinez, Edgar Lopes Banhesse, Angela Enelize (CTI Renato Archer), Alessandra Zoucas and Marcello Thiry (Univ. do Vale do Itajai)
⇒	A Process Assessment Method for ISO/IEC 29110	Timo Varkoi (Tampere Univ. of Technology)
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:30	Session 3: Human Factors in Projects and Organisations
⇒	A Human Resource Management Approach to Software Organizations	Shamya Morais and Adriano Albuquerque (UNIFOR)
⇒	Clash of cultures – between carrier grade and the perpetual beta	Guido Lubinski and Armin Oppitz (LionGate AG)
⇒	Analyzing the Similarity among Software Projects to Improve Software Project Monitoring Processes	Andrea O S Barreto and Ana Regina Rocha (COPPE/UFRJ)
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:30	Session 4: Process Definition and Implementation
⇒	An approach to implement software process improvement in small and medium sized organizations	Gisele Villas-Boas, Ana Regina C da Rocha (COPPE/UFRJ) and Marcio P do Amaral (RIOSOFT)
⇒	PIT-ProcessM: A Software Process Improvement Metamodel	Paula Martins (University of Algarve) and Alberto Rodrigues da Silva (INESC-ID / Inst. Sup. Técnico)
⇒	Supporting the Definition of Software Processes at Consulting Organisations via Software Process Lines	Ahilton Barreto (COPPE/UFRJ), Leonardo Murta (UFF), Elaine Nunes and Ana Regina Rocha (COPPE/UFRJ)

3- Quality in ICT Requirements Engineering (full-day)

Chair: Ana Moreira (FCT/UNL, Portugal)

Thematic Track page: Quality in ICT Requirements Engineering (Full-Day Thematic Track)

Title	Title	Authors
9:00-10:30	Session 1: Requirements Identification
⇒	Experiences on the use of business models for identifying quality requirements for information systems	Rosaria Bittencourt (National Nuclear Energy Commission Organization), Renata Araujo, Claudia Cappelli, Juliana Ferreira and Priscila Engiel (UNIRIO)
⇒	Collecting Quality Requirements Using Quality Models and Goals	Reinhold Plösch, Alois Mayr (Johannes Kepler University Linz) and Christian Körner (Siemens AG)
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:30	Session 2: Requirements Analysis and Specification
⇒	Increasing Quality in Scenario Modelling with Model-Driven Development	João Pedro Santos, Ana Moreira, João Araújo and Miguel Goulão (CITI/FCT/UNL)
⇒	Survey on System Behavior Specification for Extending ProjectIT-RSL	David Ferreira and Alberto Rodrigues da Silva (INESC-ID / Inst. Superior Técnico)
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:30	Session 3: Requirements Testing and Application
⇒	Abstract Testing: Connecting Source Code Verification with Requirements	Carsten Sinz, Florian Merz (Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology (KIT)), Hendrik Post, Thomas Gorges and Thomas Kropf (Robert Bosch GmbH)
⇒	Applying a UML Profile in the Requirements Modeling to Multi-Agents Systems	Gilleanes Guedes and Rosa Maria Vicari (UFRGS / UFMT)
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:30	Session 4: Performance Evaluation and Indicators
⇒	Leveraging Goal Models and Performance Indicators to Assess Health Care Information Systems	Craig Kuziemsky, Xia Liu and Liam Peyton (University of Ottawa)
⇒	Relevant Skills to Requirement Analysts According to the Literature and The Project Managers	Luciano Vale, Adriano Albuquerque (UNIFOR) and Patrícia Beserra (BRQ)

4- Quality in Web Engineering (full-day)

Chair: Coral Calero (Universidad de Castilla-la-Mancha, Spain)

Thematic Track page: Quality in Web Engineering (Full-Day Thematic Track)

Time	Title	Authors
9:00-9:15	Welcoming
9:15-9:45	CSS Code Quality: A Metric for Abstractness – Or Why Humans Beat Machines in CSS Coding	Matthias Keller and Martin Nussbaumer (Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology (KIT))
9:45-10:15	A Metrics-Based Approach to Technical Documentation Quality	Anna Wingkvist (Linnaeus University), Morgan Ericsson (Uppsala University), Rüdiger Lincke and Welf Löwe (Linnaeus University)
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:30	Gathering Information About Web 2.0 Applications for Usability Engineering	Ludger Martin (Univ. of Applied Sciences Worms)
11:30-12:00	Adaptive quality control of web resources	Nuno Escudeiro and Paula Escudeiro (Inst. Sup. de Engenharia do Porto)
12:00-12:30	Web Sites Quality: Does It Depend on the Application Domain?	Américo Rio and Fernando Brito e Abreu (QUASAR/CITI/FCT/UNL)
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:30-15:00	Improving the Design of Existing Web Applications	Giuseppe Di Lucca, Bernardi Mario Luca (RCOST, University of Sannio) and Damiano Distante (Fac. of Economics, Tel.M.A. Univ.)
15:00-15:30	Automatic Selection of RIA Software Architectures using Quality Models	Santiago Meliá, Jesús Pardillo and Cristina Cachero (University of Alicante)
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-16:30	Comprehending Ajax Web Applications by the DynaRIA Tool	Domenico Amalfitano, Anna Rita Fasolino, Armando Polcaro and Porfirio Tramontana (University of Naples Federico II)
16:30-17:00	Improving Quality of Web-GIS Modularity Using Aspects	Ana Oliveira (CITI/FCT/UNL), Matias Urbieta (LIFIA-F. Informatica. UNLP), João Araújo, Armanda Rodrigues, Ana Moreira (CITI/FCT/UNL), Sílvia Gordillo and Gustavo Rossi (LIFIA-F. Informatica. UNLP)
17:00-17:30	Discussion

5- Quality in ICT Reengineering and Refactoring (full-day)

Chair: Mel Ó Cinnéide (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Thematic Track page: Quality in ICT Reengineering and Refactoring (Full-Day Thematic Track)

Time	Title	Authors
9:15-9:30	Welcome	Mel Ó Cinnéide
9:30-10:00	Studying the Effect of Refactorings: a Complexity Metrics Perspective	Quinten David Soetens and Serge Demeyer (University of Antwerp)
10:00-10:30	Quality Analysis of Object Oriented Cohesion Metrics	Padmaja Joshi (C-DAC, Mumbai) and Rushikesh Joshi (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:30	Visualization of Multithreaded Behavior to Facilitate Maintenance of Complex Software Systems	Jonas Trümper, Johannes Bohnet, Stefan Voigt and Jürgen Döllner (Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Univ. of Potsdam)
11:30-12:00	Reengineering IT Infrastructures: A Method for Topology Discovery	Luís Ferreira da Silva and Fernando Brito e Abreu (QUASAR/CITI/FCT/UNL)
12:00-12:30	Investigating the Evolution of Bad Smells in Object-Oriented Code	Alexander Chatzigeorgiou and Anastasios Manakos (University of Macedonia)
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:30	Reducing Subjectivity in Code Smells Detection: Experimenting with the Long Method	Sérgio Bryton, Fernando Brito e Abreu and Miguel Monteiro (QUASAR/CITI/FCT/UNL)
14:30-15:00	IDS: An Immunology-inspired Approach for the Detection of Software Design Smells	Salima Hassaine, Foutse Khomh (DIRO, Université de Montréal), Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc (École Polytechnique de Montréal), Sylvie Hamel (DIRO, Université de Montréal)
15:00-15:30	Closing discussion	Mel Ó Cinnéide

6- Quality in ICT Service Management (full-day)

Chair: Neil McBride (De Montfort University, UK)

Thematic Track page: Quality in ICT Service Management (Full-Day Thematic Track)

Time	Title	Authors
09:00-09:45	Definition and Validation of Metrics for ITSM Process Models	Fernando Brito e Abreu, Raquel Porciúncula, Jorge Freitas and José Carlos Costa (QUASAR / CITI / FCT/UNL)
09:45-10:30	Implementing the Service Catalogue	Carlos Mendes and Miguel Mira da Silva (Instituto Superior Técnico)
10:30-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-11:45	Defining and Observing the Compliance of Service Level Agreements: A Model Driven Approach	Anacleto Correia and Fernando Brito e Abreu (QUASAR / CITI / FCT/UNL)
11:45-12:30	The make-or-buy decision in ICT services: Empirical evidence from micro data	Ludivine Martin (CEPS/INSTEAD)
12:30-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:45	An IT Infrastructure patterns approach to improve service management quality	Luís Ferreira da Silva and Fernando Brito e Abreu (QUASAR / CITI / FCT/UNL)
14:45-15:30	Towards Specifications Patterns for Global Software Development Projects - Experiences from the Industry	Frank Salger (Capgemini sd&m AG)
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-16:45	Requirements Certification for Offshoring using LSPCM	Alexander Serebrenik (Eindhoven University of Technology), Amrita Mishra (Capgemini), Thomas Delissen (Eindhoven University of Technology) and Martijn Klabbers (LaQuSo, Eindhoven University of Technology)
16:45-17:30	Managing Risk in Decision to Outsource IT Projects	Syaripah Ruzaini Syed Aris, Noor Habibah Arshad and Azlinah Mohamed (Universiti Teknologi MARA)

7- Quality in Model Driven Engineering (half-day)

Chair: Parastoo Mohagheghi (SINTEF, Norway)

Thematic Track page: Quality in Model Driven Engineering (Half-Day Thematic Track)

Time	Title	Authors
14:00-14:10	Welcome	Parastoo Mohagheghi (SINTEF, Norway)
14:10-14:40	Track keynote	Michel Chaudron
14:40-15:05	Increasing Software Quality through Design Reuse	Fernando Barros
15:05-15:30	A Tool for Automatic Defect Detection in Models used in Model-Driven Engineering	Beatriz Marín, Giovanni Giachetti, Oscar Pastor and Tanja Vos
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-16:25	A Framework for Process-centric Business Continuity Management	Ulrich Winkler, Mathias Fritzsche, Wasif Gilani and Alan Marshall
16:25-16:50	Seamlessness as a desirable aspect of quality for MDE: the contribution of object-relational database structures	Patricia Roberts
16:50-17:20	Guided discussion: From quality of models to quality in model-based software development	Moderated by Parastoo Mohagheghi
17:20-17:30	Final discussions

8- Quality Evolution in ICT (half-day)

Chair: Michel Wermelinger (The Open University, UK)

Thematic Track page: Quality Evolution in ICT (Half-Day Thematic Track)

Time	Title	Authors
14.00-15.30	Quality of Evolution
⇒	Studying Supply and Demand of Software Maintenance and Evolution Services	Alain April (École de Technologie Supérieure)
⇒	Exploratory analysis of the relations between code cloning and open source software quality	Denis Kozlov, Jussi Koskinen, Markku Sakkinen (University of Jyväskylä) and Jouni Markkula (University of Oulu)
⇒	Towards Automated Quality Models for Software Development Communities: the QualOSS and FLOSSMetrics case	Daniel Izquierdo-Cortazar, Jesus M Gonzalez-Barahona, Santiago Dueñas and Gregorio Robles (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos)
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16.00-17.00	Evolution of Quality
⇒	A method for continuous code quality management using static analysis	Reinhold Plösch, Harald Gruber (Johannes Kepler University Linz), Christian Körner and Matthias Saft (Siemens AG)
⇒	A PMO Installation for TI Project Management in a R&D Institution	Aletéia Bettin (Eldorado Research Institute), Carlos Tobar (PUC-Campinas), Denise Prado (Eldorado Research Institute), Íris Silva (Mechanic Engin. Faculty, UNICAMP)
17.00-17.30	Quality & Evolution: quo vadis? (group discussion)

9- Quality in Agile Methods (half-day)

Chair: Panagiotis Sfetsos (Alexander Technological Educational Institution, Greece)

Thematic Track page: Quality in Agile Methods (Half-Day Thematic Track)

Time	Title	Authors
14:00-14:10	Welcome	Panagiotis Sfetsos, Track Chair
14:10-14:35	Empirical evaluation on effect of agile in software defect management in a large distributed organization	Kirsi Korhonen (Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN))
14:35-15:00	Empirical Studies on Quality in Agile Practices: A Systematic Literature Review	Panagiotis Sfetsos (Alexander Technological Educational Institution) and Ioannis Stamelos (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki)
15:00-15:25	Procedures and conditions that influence on the efficiency of some agile practices	Henrique Landim, Adriano Albuquerque and Thiago Macedo (UNIFOR)
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-16:25	Classification and Comparison of Agile Methods	João M Fernandes and Mauro Almeida (Universidade do Minho)
16:25-16:50	Component Recycling for Agile Methods	George Kakarontzas and Ioannis Stamelos (Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki)
16:50-17:15	Test-Driven Development - Still a Promising Approach?	Sami Kollanus (University of Jyväskylä)
17:15-17:30	Final discussions

10- Teaching ICT Quality (half-day)

Chair: Stephen B. Seidman (Texas State University, USA)

Thematic Track page: Teaching ICT Quality (Half-Day Thematic Track)

Time	Title	Authors
14:00-14:45	Teaching Software Quality in an interdisciplinary course of Engineering	Rejane Maria Figueiredo, Andre B. Sales, Luiz Carlos M. Ribeiro, Luiz Augusto Laranjeira and Adson Rocha (Universidade de Brasília)
14:45-15:30	Software Quality: From Theory to Practice	Ita Richardson and Yvonne Delaney (University of Limerick)
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-16:45	Experiments of adding to the experience that can be acquired from a software project course	Robert Dupuis (Université du Québec à Montréal), Roger Champagne (École de technologie Supérieure), Alain April (École de technologie Supérieure) and Normand Séguin (Université du Québec à Montréal)
16:45-17:30	Conveying conceptions of quality through instruction	Arnold Pears (Uppsala University)

11: Standardization and Certification in ICT (half-day)

Thematic Track Chair: Knut Blind (TU Berlin / Fraunhofer FOKUS, Erasmus University, Germany)
Thematic Track page: Standardization and Certification in ICT (Half-Day Thematic Track)
Sessions Chair: Ricardo J. Machado (University of Minho)

Time	Title	Authors
14:00-14:45	The evolving picture of standardisation and certification in process assessment	Terence Rout (Griffith University)
14:45-15:30	Software safety standards for the basis of certification in the nuclear domain	Hannu Harju, Lahtinen Jussi (VTT Technical Research Centre), Risto Nevalainen (Spinet ry.), Jukka Ranta (VTT Technical Research Centre) and Mika Johansson (Spinet ry.)
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-16:45	An Approach to Ambiguity Analysis in Safety-related Standards	Isabella Biscoglio, Alessandro Coco, Mario Fusani, Stefania Gnesi and Gianluca Trentanni (ISTI-CNR)
16:45-17:30	Establishing a Well-founded Conceptualization about Software Measurement in High Maturity Levels	Monalessa P. Barcellos (COPPE/UFRJ and UFES), Ricardo Falbo (UFES) and Ana Regina Rocha (COPPE/UFRJ)

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