Date: 28 and 29 November 2016

Venue: William Penn Suite, Friends House, 173-177 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BJ 

Overview:

It has been widely observed that software engineers often implement 'not quite right' solutions to gain value in form of fast delivery and prototyping. Moreover, it is believed that engineers resist attempts to change systems to avoid disruption and other costs this might incur, thereby building up a set of delayed interventions known as technical debt. This poses significant challenges to research and practice, including measuring and understanding technical debt, managing and ameliorating its effects, and providing automated and semi automated support to software engineers. This workshop will focus on software architecture and design, and the role it has to play in addressing these issues of technical debt. It will draw together experts in software architecture, measuring and understanding technical debt, and the provision of automated and semi automated support.

Speakers:

Alessandro Garcia, Informatics Department, The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Fabio Palomba, Department of Computer Science, University of Salerno, Italy

Gabriele Bavota, Faculty of Informatics, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland 

Jens Krinke, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK

Lu Xiao, Computer Science, Drexel University, USA

Marouane Kessentini, Computer and Information Science, University of Michigan, USA

Matheus Paixao, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK

Paris Avgeriou, Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands 

Stephany Bellomo, Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, USA

Will Snipes, ABB Corpprate Research, USA

Yun Lin, Department of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Yuanfang Cai, Computer Science, Drexel University, USA

 

Schedule: 

Day 1 – 28 Nov 

10:30 – Pastries

11:00 – Introductions (Videos: 480p, 720p)

11:30 - Lu Xiao - Identifying and Quantifying Architectural Debt (Slides, Videos: 480p, 720p)

11:50 – Discussion 

12:00 - Alessandro Garcia - Code Smells Flock Together:  Are Smell Agglomerations Indicators of Design Problems? (Videos: 480p, 720p)

12:20 – Discussion

12:30 – Lunch

13:30 - Stephany Bellomo (Slides: 1 and 2, Videos: 480p, 720p)

13:50 - Discussion

14:00  - Will Snipes - Technical Debt in Long-Lived Systems

14:20 – Discussion

14:30  - Jens Krinke - Code Duplication: A Measurable Technical Debt? (Slides, Videos: 480p, 720p)

14:50 – Discussion

15:00 – Refreshments 

15:30 – Paris Avgeriou - An outlook on Technical Debt Management (Slides, Videos: 480p, 720p)

15:50 - Discussion

16:00 - Marouane Kessentini - Search-based Refactoring in Practice: Foundations, Challenges and Recent Advances

16:20 – Discussion

16:30 – Final discussion and close

 

Day 2 – 29 Nov 

10:30 – Pastries

11:00 – Gabriele Bavota - What I (don’t) know about refactoring and code smells

11:20 - Discussion

11:30 - Fabio Palomba -Mining Version Histories for Detecting Code Smells (Slides, Videos: 480p, 720p)

11:50 – Discussion 

12:00 - Yuanfang Cai - Decoupling Level: A New Metric for Architectural Maintenance Complexity (Slides, Videos: 480p, 720p)

12:20 – Discussion

12:30 – Lunch 

13:30  - Matheus Paixao - Cohesion and Coupling Optimisation: Balancing Improvement and Disruption (Slides, Videos: 480p, 720p)

13:50 – Discussion

14:00  - Yun Lin (Slides, Videos: 480p, 720p)

14:20 – Discussion

14:30 – Break out session

15:00 – Refreshments 

15:30 – Feedback from break out

16:00 – Final discussion and close 

 

Register: 

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This workshop is supported by the following sponsors:

Registered attendees:

1. Mark Harman, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK

2. Matheus Paixao, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK

3. Alessandro Garcia, Informatics Department, The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

4. Gabriele Bavota, Faculty of Informatics, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland 

5. Lu Xiao, Computer Science, Drexel University, USA

6. Yun Lin, Department of Computing, National University of Singapore, Singapore

7. Yuanfang Cai, Computer Science, Drexel University, USA

8. Bashar Nuseibeh, Department of Computing, Open University, UK

9. Fabio Palomba, Department of Computer Science, University of Salerno, Italy

10. Emmanuel Letier, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK

11. Chris Simons, Department of Computer Science and Creative Technologies, University of the West of England, UK

12. Jens Krinke, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK

13. Stephen Cullum, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, UK 

14. Mark Micallef, Faculty of ICT, University of Malta, Malta 

15. William Grosky, Computer and Information Science, University of Michigan, USA

16. Sara Hassan, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK 

17. Marouane Kessentini, Computer and Information Science, University of Michigan, USA

18. Paris Avgeriou, Johann Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands 

19. Will Snipes, ABB Corporate Research, USA

20. David White, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK

21. Saheed Busari, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK

22. Jie Zhang, Institute of Software Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China

23. Nicolas Gold, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK

24. Jacek Dabrowski, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK

25. Paolo Falcarin, School of Architecture Computing and Engineering, University of East London, UK

26. Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK

27. Rachel Sparks, Translational Imaging Group, Department of Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, UCL

28. Huayao Wu, Nanjing University, China

29. Ingrid Nunes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil and TU Dortmund, Germany

38. David Štefan, City Pantry, UK

31. Lingbo Li, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK

32. Olawole Oni, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK

33. Marinos Kintis, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

34. José Raúl Romero, University of Córdoba, Spain

35. Julian Ghionoiu, Be Faster, UK

36. Michael Godfrey, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

37. Carlos Gavidia, CREST Centre, SSE Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK

 

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