INES – National Institute of Science and Technology for Software Engineering

INES at JSEKE

INES researchers members from the project An Investigation of Methods, Processes, Tools, and Metrics for the Development of Software Product Lines (SPL) — in portuguese, Uma Investigação de Processos, Ferramentas e Métricas para o Desenvolvimento de Linhas de Produto de Software, had one accepted paper at Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (JSEKE).

Information about the paper:  Risk Management in Software Product Lines: A Mapping Study. by Luanna Lopes Lobato, Paulo Anselmo Neto, Eduardo Almeida and Silvio Meira.

INES at Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)

INES researchers members from the project An Investigation of Methods, Processes, Tools, and Metrics for the Development of Software Product Lines (SPL) — in portuguese, Uma Investigação de Processos, Ferramentas e Métricas para o Desenvolvimento de Linhas de Produto de Software, had one accepted paper at Journal of Systems and Software (JSS).

Information about the paper: Evidence of Software Inspection on Feature Specification for Software Product Lines. by Iuri Silva, Gecynalda Gomes, Paulo Anselmo Neto, Ivan Machado, Eduardo Almeida and Silvio Meira.

INES at IEEE Computer

INES researchers members from the project An Investigation of Methods, Processes, Tools, and Metrics for the Development of Software Product Lines (SPL) — in portuguese, Uma Investigação de Processos, Ferramentas e Métricas para o Desenvolvimento de Linhas de Produto de Software, had one accepted paper at IEEE Computer Magazine. IEEE Computer is considered one of the main venues in the computer science field. The paper will be availabe in the October issue about Dynamic Software Product Lines.

Information about the paper: A View of the Landscape of Dynamic Software Product Lines by Nelly Bencomo, Svein Hallsteinsen, Eduardo Almeida

INES at SBCARS (2012)

INES researchers members from the project An Investigation of Methods, Processes, Tools, and Metrics for the Development of Software Product Lines (SPL) — in portuguese, Uma Investigação de Processos, Ferramentas e Métricas para o Desenvolvimento de Linhas de Produto de Software, had two accepted papers at 6th Brazilian Symposium on Software Components, Architectures and Reuse (SBCARS).

The papers are:

1. An Investigation on the Impact of MDE on Software Reuse by Daniel Lucrédio, Eduardo Almeida and Renata P. M. Fortes
2. Evidence from Risk Management in Software Product Lines Development: A Cross-Case Analysis by  Luanna Lopes Lobato, Paulo Anselmo da Mota Silveira Neto, Ivan do Carmo Machado, Eduardo Almeida and Silvio Meira.

INES at SCArVeS@ SPLC (2012)

INES researchers members from the project An Investigation of Methods, Processes, Tools, and Metrics for the Development of Software Product Lines (SPL) — in portuguese, Uma Investigação de Processos, Ferramentas e Métricas para o Desenvolvimento de Linhas de Produto de Software, had an accepted paper at 2nd International Workshop on Services, Clouds and Alternative Design Strategies for Variant-Rich Software System (SCARrVeS).

This workshop is part of the SPLC (2012).

The paper A Study on Service Identification Methods for Software Product Lines from Tassio do Vale, Eduardo Almeida, Gustavo Bittencourt, Silvio Meira discusses issues related to service identification in Software Product Lines Projects.

INES at EUROMICRO (2012)

INES researchers members from the project An Investigation of Methods, Processes, Tools, and Metrics for the Development of Software Product Lines (SPL) — in portuguese, Uma Investigação de Processos, Ferramentas e Métricas para o Desenvolvimento de Linhas de Produto de Software, had an accepted paper at 38th IEEE EUROMICRO Conference, MOCS – Model-based development, Components and Services (Track) with the papers:

• TIRT: A Traceability Information Retrieval Tool for Software Product Lines Projects from Wylliams Barbosa, Eduardo Almeida, Silvio Meira
• CodeScoping: A Source Code Based Tool to Software Product Lines Scoping from Thiago Fernandes, Eduardo Almeida, Silvio Meira

INES at SBES (2012)

INES researchers members from the project An Investigation of Methods, Processes, Tools, and Metrics for the Development of Software Product Lines (SPL) — in portuguese, Uma Investigação de Processos, Ferramentas e Métricas para o Desenvolvimento de Linhas de Produto de Software, had an accepted paper at 26th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES) with the paper On the Relationship between Inspection and Evolution in Software Product Lines: An Exploratory Study by Iuri Souza, Raphael Oliveira, Gecynalda Gomes and Eduardo Almeida.

INES at IRI (2012)

INES researchers members from the project An Investigation of Methods, Processes, Tools, and Metrics for the evelopment of Software Product Lines (SPL) — in portuguese, Uma Investigação de Processos, Ferramentas e Métricas para o Desenvolvimento de Linhas de Produto de Software, had three accepted papers at the 13th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI).

The papers were:

1. Towards an Integration Testing Approach for Software Product Lines

by Ivan Machado, Paulo Silveira Neto and Eduardo Almeida

2. A Software Product Lines System Test Case Tool

by Crescencio Neto, Eduardo Almeida, Silvio Meira

3. An Experimental Study to Evaluate a SPL Architecture Regression Testing Approach

by Paulo Neto, Ivan Machado, Eduardo Almeida, Yguarata Cavalcanti, Vinicius Garcia, Silvio Meira

INES at CTDQS/SBQS 2012

INES researchers will be present at the XI Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality – SBQS’2012, with the paper “SPLMT-TE: A Software Product Lines System Test Case Tool“ authored by Crescencio Rodrigues Lima Neto, Eduardo Santana de Almeida and Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira. The paper was accepted in the Software Quality Thesis and Dissertations Competition (CTDQS).

The Software Quality Thesis and Dissertations Contest (CTDQS’2012) aims to promote and award the best M.Sc. dissertations and Ph.D. thesis in the field of software quality, defended and approved in Brazil during the year 2011. The CTDQS is also intended to encourage further work in postgraduate on Quality Software and stimulating University-Industry interaction in this area.

This work was developed inside the project An Investigation of Methods, Processes, Tools, and Metrics for the evelopment of Software Product Lines (SPL) — in portuguese, Uma Investigação de Processos, Ferramentas e Métricas para o Desenvolvimento de Linhas de Produto de Software.

INES at SEKE (2012)

INES researchers members from the project “An Investigation of Methods, Processes, Tools, and Metrics for the Development of Software Product Lines (SPL)” — in portuguese, Uma Investigação de Processos, Ferramentas e Métricas para o Desenvolvimento de Linhas de Produto de Software, had three accepted papers at 24th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), U.S.

• Cunha, R; Conte, T; Almeida, E. S; Maldonado, J, C. A Set of Inspection Techniques on Software Product Line Models, 24th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), San Francisco, U.S, 2012

• Neto, C. R.; Neto, P. A. M. S; Almeida, E. S; Meira, S. R. L. A Mapping Study on Software Product Lines Testing Tools, 24th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), San Francisco, U.S, 2012

• Lobato, L. L.; Machado, I. C.; Neto, P. A. M. S; Almeida, E. S; Meira, S. R. L. Synthesizing Evidence on Risk Management: A Narrative Synthesis of two Scoping Studies, 24th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), San Francisco, U.S, 2012