Web2SE: First Workshop on Web 2.0 for Software Engineering


Abstract

Social software is built around an "architecture of participation" where user data is aggregated as a side-effect of using Web 2.0 applications. Web 2.0 implies that processes and tools are socially open, and that content can be used in several different contexts. Web 2.0 tools and technologies support interactive information sharing, data interoperability and user centered design. For instance, wikis, blogs, tags and feeds help us organize, manage and categorize content in an informal and collaborative way. One goal of this workshop is to investigate how these technologies can improve software development practices. Some of these technologies have made their way into collaborative software development processes such as Agile and Scrum, and in development platforms such as Rational Team Concert which draw their inspiration from Web 2.0. These processes and environments are just scratching the surface of what can be done by incorporating Web 2.0 approaches and technologies into collaborative software development. This workshop aims to improve our understanding of how Web 2.0, manifested in technologies such as mashups or dashboards, can change the culture of collaborative software development.

Submission website

http://cyberchairpro3.borbala.net/web2sepapers/submit/

The submission website is now closed. We will send out acceptance notifications on February 17th.

Topics of interest

  • Current use of Web 2.0 mechanisms by software developers
  • Role of Web 2.0 technologies in software development
  • Adaption of Web 2.0 tools by software developers
  • Software development as a “socially open” process
  • Using Web 2.0 tools to support informal communication in distributed teams
  • Enhancements of development environments with regard to Web 2.0
  • Tools that bring Web 2.0 into software development
  • Mining Web 2.0 data from software repositories
  • Informal processes in software engineering supported by Web 2.0
  • Emergent Web 2.0 work practices in software development

Workshop Goals

  • Summarize the current state-of-the-art research with regard to the use of Web 2.0 technologies in software development. Some Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, facebook, blogs and tags have already in part been adopted by software developers and by development environments. The workshop will highlight pertinent research and tools.
  • Explore how Web 2.0 technologies in software development could be further leveraged, in particular to support distributed and team-based development. Some Web 2.0 technologies such as twitter are still fairly new and it is unclear if and how they could improve team-based software development tools.
  • Investigate to which extent the “socially open” attitude of Web 2.0 applies to software development. Web 2.0 applications are increasingly data-driven and the key advantage of Internet applications is the extent to which users add their own data. By the end of the workshop we hope to have a notion of how to balance architecture of participation and individual productivity. A promising route that we hope to address is how data collection and analysis techniques as used in the field of software repository mining can be enriched with data provided by software engineers or collected from the way they interact with their development tools. We will also discuss how “socially open” software development relates to open source development.
  • Explore how Web 2.0 technologies can be incorporated into software engineering processes and methods.

Workshop Format

This full-day workshop will consist of an introduction to the topic, presentations of accepted papers and posters, and working sessions on previously identified topics from the submissions. Throughout the workshop, participants will use Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis and twitter to collaboratively gather the findings from the workshops. The findings will be made available to all workshop participants.

Submission and Publication

Both research papers (max. 6 pages) and poster papers as well as position papers (max. 2 pages) will be accepted. The final version of the accepted papers will be published in the ICSE Companion and will also be made available during the workshop.

Papers must follow the ACM conference format and must not exceed the page limits mentioned above, including figures and references. All submissions must be in English. Papers must be submitted electronically, in PDF format, using the submission website.

Call for papers

Dates

Submissions:
extended! January 31, 2010
Author notification:
February 17, 2010
Camera-ready copy: 
March 3, 2010
Workshop: 
May 4, 2010
All deadlines are strict and no extensions will be given.

Workshop Organizers

Christoph Treude, University of Victoria, Canada, ctreude@uvic.ca
Margaret-Anne Storey, University of Victoria, Canada, mstorey@uvic.ca
Kate Ehrlich, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Cambridge MA, USA, katee@us.ibm.com
Arie van Deursen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, arie.vandeursen@tudelft.nl

Program Committee

Gina Venolia, Microsoft Research 
Jean-Marie Favre, OneTree Technologies, Luxembourg 
Li-Te Cheng, IBM Watson Research Center
Thomas Zimmermann, Microsoft Research
Harald Gall, University of Zurich
Frank Maurer, University of Calgary
Markus Strohmaier, TU Graz
Andrew Begel, Microsoft Research
Uri Dekel, Carnegie Mellon University
Jorge Aranda, University of Toronto
Jonathan Sillito, University of Calgary
Michele Lanza, University of Lugano
ICSE 2010

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