ICSEA 2016, The Eleventh International Conference on Software Engineering Advances

Type: conference

Notes: IARIA Conference.

Editors:
Luigi Lavazza, Università dell'Insubria - Varese, Italy
Mira Kajko-Mattsson, Stockholm University & Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Krishna M. Kavi, University of North Texas, USA
Radek Koci, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Stephen Clyde, Utah State University, USA

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-498-5

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from August 21, 2016 to August 25, 2016

Articles: there are 52 articles

The Uncomfortable Discrepancies of Software Metric Thresholds and Reference Values in Literature
Eudes Lima, Antônio Resende, and Timothy Lethbridge
keywords: software metrics; software measures; thresholds; reference values; systematic literature review

CERTICS - A Harmonization with CMMI-DEV Practices for Implementation of Technology Management Competence Area
Fabrício W S Garcia, Sandro R B Oliveira, and Clênio F Salviano
keywords: software engineering; software quality; technology management; CERTICS; CMMI-DEV; harmonization

An Investigation on the Relative Cost of Function Point Analysis Phases
Luigi Lavazza
keywords: functional size measurement; Function Point Analysis; IFPUG Function Points; measurement process; cost of measurement

A Pattern Language for Application-level Communication Protocols
Jorge Lascano and Stephen Clyde
keywords: design patterns; pattern languages; communication protocols

A Concise Classification of Reverse Engineering Approaches for Software Product Lines
Rehman Arshad and kung-Kiu Lau
keywords: Product Line Engineering; Reverse Engineering; Static Analysis; Dynamic Analysis; Textual Analysis; Hybrid Analysis; Feature Location.

A UML-based Simple Function Point Estimation Method and Tool
Geng Liu, Xingqi Wang, and Jinglong Fang
keywords: Functional Size Measures; Simple Function Point; SiFP; UML; Object-oriented measures.

Transaction-Aware Aspects with TransJ: An Initial Empirical Study to Demonstrate Improvement in Reusability
Anas AlSobeh and Stephen Clyde
keywords: Transaction-related Aspects; Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOPL); Abstractions; Transaction Joinpoint; Dynamic Weaving; Pointcuts; Transaction-related Contexts (TCC's); software reuse; and performance.

Modeling and Formal Specification Of Multi-scale Software Architectures
Ilhem Khlif, Mohamed Hadj Kacem, Khalil Drira, and Ahmed Hadj Kacem
keywords: Software; Architecture; multi-scale; iterative; modeling; UML; formal; specification; structural; behavioral; refinement; Event-B.

A Cost-benefit Evaluation of Accessibility Testing in Agile Software Development
Aleksander Bai, Heidi Camilla Mork, and Viktoria Stray
keywords: Accessibility testing; Agile software development; Cost-benefit analysis; Usability.

Toward Automatic Performance Testing for REST-based Web Applications
Chia Hung Kao, Chun Cheng Lin, and Hsin Tse Lu
keywords: Performance testing; web application; software testing

Reports with TDD and Mock Objects: an Improvement in Unit Tests
Alan S. C. Mazuco and Edna D. Canedo
keywords: TDD; Test Driven Development; Mock Objects; Reports.

FAST: Framework for Automating Software Testing
Ana Paula Carvalho Cavalcanti Furtado, Silvio Meira, Carlos Santos, Tereza Novais, and Marcelo Ferreira
keywords: software testing automation; software testing; process improvement; software quality

Configuration Management to Tests Automatics in a Software Factory
Marcelo Ferreira, Ana Paula Furtado, and Ivaldir Junior
keywords: configuration management; reuse; tests automations; traceability; sotware requirements

An Exploratory Study of DevOps: Extending the Dimensions of DevOps with Practices
Lucy Ellen Lwakatare, Pasi Kuvaja, and Markku Oivo
keywords: DevOps, Continuous Deployment, Agile

The Daily Crash: a Reflection on Continuous Performance Testing
Gururaj Maddodi, Slinger Jansen, Jan Pieter Guelen, and Rolf de Jong
keywords: Workload Generation; Performance Testing; Software Architecture

Formalization of Ergonomic Knowledge For Designing Context-Aware Human-Computer Interfaces
Dorra Zaibi, Meriem Riahi, and Faouzi Moussa
keywords: Ergonomic knowledge; expert system; Human computer Interaction, Model Driven Architecture; context-aware design

COTS Adaptation Method – A Lifecycle Perspective
Waldemar Britts and Mira Kajko-Mattsson
keywords: standard systems; reuse; lifecycle; business process

Towards Easier Implementation of Design Patterns
Ruslan Batdalov and Oksana Nikiforova
keywords: design patterns; design patterns implementation.

Spider-DAR: A Tool to Support the Implementation of Decision Analysis and Resolution Process based on CMMI-DEV and MR-MPS-SW Models
Luiz O D Lima, Sandro R B Oliveira, Bleno W F V Silva, Géssica P Silva, and Iuri I S Raiol
keywords: software engineering; software quality; decision analysis and resolution; process improvement; software tool

Challenges of the Digital Transformation in Software Engineering
Michael Gebhart, Pascal Giessler, and Sebastian Abeck
keywords: digital transformation; digitization; software engineering; challenge

An Approach to Generation of the UML Sequence Diagram from the Two-Hemisphere Model
Konstantin Gusarov, Oksana Nikiforova, and Anatoly Ressin
keywords: two-hemisphere model; UML sequence diagram; model transformation; finite-state machines; regular expressions

ReUse: A Recommendation System for Implementing User Stories
Heidar Pirzadeh, Andre de Santi Oliveira, and Sara Shanian
keywords: Recommendation System; Text Mining; Program Comprehension; Information Retrieval; Agile Software Development

Combining Logistic Regression Analysis and Association Rule Mining via MLR Algorithm
Özge Yücel Kasap, Nevzat Ekmekçi, and Utku Görkem Ketenci
keywords: Logistic Regression; Logit; Association Rule Mining; Apriori; Ensemble Learning; Stacking; MLR

Modeling System Requirements Using Use Cases and Petri Nets
Radek Koci and Vladimir Janousek
keywords: Object Oriented Petri Nets; Use Cases; requirement specification; requirement implementation

A Strategy for Statistical Process Control Education in Computer Science
Julio C C Furtado and Sandro R B Oliveira
keywords: software engineering; measurement and analysis; statistical process control; software process improvement; software quality; education

Towards Applying Normalized Systems Theory to Create Evolvable Enterprise Resource Planning Software: A Case Study
Ornchanok Chongsombut, Jan Verelst, Peter De Bruyn, Herwig Mannaert, and Philip Huysmans
keywords: Normalized Systems theory; evolvability; software architecture

A Three-level Versioning Model for Component-based Software Architectures
Abderrahman Mokni, Christelle Urtado, Sylvain Vauttier, and Marianne Huchard
keywords: architecture evolution; abstraction levels; versioning; component reuse

Services for Legacy Software Rejuvenation: A Systematic Mapping Study
Manuel Gonçalves da Silva Neto, Walquiria Castelo Branco Lins, and Eric Bruno Perazzo Mariz
keywords: Systematic Mapping; SOA; Legacy Systems

A Framework with Agile Practices for Implementation of Project Portfolio Management Process
Lílian S F Silva and Sandro R B Oliveira
keywords: software quality; process improvement; portfolio management; agile practices

Software Evolution Visualization Tools Functional Requirements – a Comprehensive Understanding
Hani Bani-Salameh, Ayat Ahmad, and Dua'a Bani-Salameh
keywords: Evolution; Software Evolution Visualization; Tools

Development of Network System Based on Fiber-To-The-Desktop (FTTD) in a National University Hospital
Osamu Takaki, Kota Torikai, Shinichi Tsujimura, Ryoji Suzuki, Yuichiro Saito, Takashi Aoki, Kenta Maeda, Ichiroh Suzuta, and Nobukuni Hamamoto
keywords: FTTD, network system, national university hospital

A CASE Tool for Modeling Healthcare Applications with Archetypes and Analysis Patterns
André Magno Costa de Araújo, Valéria Cesário Times, Marcus Urbano da Silva, and Carlos Andrew Costa Bezerra
keywords: Archetypes; Database related software; conceptual data modeling; E-health related software.

3D Human Heart Anatomy : Simulation and Visualization Based on MR Images
Chebbi Tawfik, Rawia Frikha, Ridha Ejbali, and Mourad Zaied
keywords: heart; MRI; Marching Cubes; Segmentation; Augmented

Towards a Smart Car Seat Design for Drowsiness Detection Based on Pressure Distribution of the Driver’s Body
Ines Teyeb, Olfa Jemai, Mourad Zaied, and Chokri Ben Amar
keywords: Fatigue; Vigilance; Body pressure; Drowsiness; Smart seat.

Detection and Classification of Dental Caries in X-ray Images Using Deep Neural Networks
Ramzi Ben Ali, Ridha Ejbali, and Mourad Zaied
keywords: dental X-ray; classification; Deep Neural Networks; Stacked sparse auto-encoder; Softmax

Towards Agile Enterprise Data Warehousing
Mikko Puonti, Antti Luoto, Timo Aho, Timo Lehtonen, and Timo Aaltonen
keywords: data warehouses; business intelligence; agile software development; scrum.

Toward the Design and Implementation of the Hosted Private Cloud
Chia Hung Kao and Hsin Tse Lu
keywords: Cloud Computing; Private Cloud; Hosted Private Cloud

A General Solution for Business Process Model Extension with Cost Perspective based on Process Mining
Dhafer Thabet, Sonia Ayachi Ghannouchi, and Henda Hajjami Ben Ghezala
keywords: Business Process Management; Business Process Improvement; Process Mining; Business Process Model Cost Extension; Cost Extended High Level Process Structure.

Understandability Metric for Web Services
Usama Maabed, Ahmed Elfatatry, and Adel El-Zoghabi
keywords: SOA; Web services; Usability; Discovery; Web service interface quality.

Towards an Open Smart City Notification Service
Luiz Cajueiro, Silvino Neto, Felipe Ferraz, and Ana Cavalcanti
keywords: Middleware; CEP; Pub/Sub; Heterogeneous Systems; Smart City; Events; Google Cloud Platform

A Set of Support Tools to Software Process Appraisal and Improvement in Adherence to CMMI-DEV
Leonardo P Mezzomo, Sandro R B Oliveira, and Alexandre M L Vasconcelos
keywords: software engineering; software quality; process appraisal; process improvement; software tool

A New Algorithm to Parse a Mathematical Expression and its Application to Create a Customizable Programming Language
Vassili Kaplan
keywords: software development; software engineering; algorithm; parsing; scripting language; programming language

Proposed Data Model for a Historical Base Tool
Karine Santos Valença, Edna Dias Canedo, Ricardo Ajax Dias Kosloski, and Sérgio Antônio Andrade de Freitas
keywords: Measurement; Systematic Mapping; Metamodelling; Goal Question Metric; Database.

Analysis of Expectations of Students and Their Initial Concepts on Software Quality
Luis Fernandez-Sanz, José Amelio Medina Merodio, Josefa Gómez Pérez, and Sanjay Misra
keywords: software quality, education, curriculum, quality culture.

iGuard: A Personalized Privacy Guard System for Cloud Service Usage on Mobile Devices
Chien-Wei Hu, Hewijin Jiau, and Kuo-Feng Ssu
keywords: privacy measurement; privacy protection.

Trust-Oriented Protocol for Continuous Monitoring of Stored Files in Cloud
Alexandre Pinheiro, Edna Dias Canedo, Rafael Timóteo de Sousa Júnior, and Robson de Oliveira Albuquerque
keywords: protocol; trust; cloud data storage; integrity; data monitoring.

Smart Cities Security Issues: An Impeding Identity Crisis
Felipe Ferraz, Carlos Ferraz, and Ademir Gomes
keywords: Identity; Security; Smart Cities

Predicting Unknown Vulnerabilities using Software Metrics and Maturity Models
Patrick Kamongi, Krishna Kavi, and Mahadevan Gomathisankaran
keywords: Vulnerabilities; Metrics; Models

A Catalog of Best Practices about Supplier Agreement Management and Agile Practices
Elisiane M Soares, Sandro R B Oliveira, Melquizedequi C Santos, and Alexandre M L Vasconcelos
keywords: software engineering; software quality; process improvement; acquisition; supplier agreement management; agile practices

Integrating Service Design Prototyping into Software Development
Tanja Sauvola, Simo Rontti, Laura Laivamaa, Markku Oivo, and Pasi Kuvaja
keywords: customer involvement; service design; software development; experience prototyping

Business Model Canvas as an Option for Co-Creation of Strategic Themes of SAFe Portfolio
Eriko Brito and Felipe Furtado
keywords: Business Model Generation; SAFe; Agile Methods; Strategic Planning

A Synchronous Agile Framework Proposal Combining Scrum and TDD
Marcia Maria Savoine, Vanessa França Rocha, Carlos Andrew Costa Bezerra, André Magno Costa de Araújo, and Joyce Karoline Maciel Matias
keywords: Methodologies; Scrum; TDD