[ecoop-info] CFP: ICSE 1st Workshop on Developing Tools as Plug-ins (TOPI), May 28, 2011

[Judith Bishop]

CALL FOR PAPERS

1st WORKSHOP ON DEVELOPING TOOLS AS PLUG-INS (TOPI 2011)

May 28th, 2011
In conjunction with ICSE 2011, Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
http:// topi2011 at inf.puc-rio.br<http://%20topi2011@inf.puc-rio.br>

  *   All accepted submissions to be published in the ICSE Workshops Volume, in the ACM Digital Library
  *   Best papers will be invited for full submission in Software Practice and Experience<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291097-024X>
  *   Poster attached
OVERVIEW
Our knowledge as to how to solve software engineering problems is increasingly being encapsulated in tools. These tools are at their strongest when they operate in a pre-existing development environment that can provide integration with existing elements such as compilers, debuggers, profilers and visualizers. Some also exist beyond development time and work with the runtime. A further challenge is to develop tools that can span different - and future - development environments and runtimes. The purpose of TOPI is to provide a forum for discussing research, ongoing work, ideas, concepts, challenges, and critical questions related to the engineering of software tools as plug-ins for IDEs, runtimes and browsers.

GOALS
The workshop wants to address the following issues:

  *   identify recent successful tools as plug-ins
  *   categorize the characteristics of good plug-ins
  *   understand interoperability requirements to making tools available across platforms
  *   list which tools lend themselves best to the plug- in approach
  *   specify the medium and long term challenges of tools as plug-ins
Thus we are more concerned in this workshop with understanding the characteristics and creation of tools as plug-ins, than of the tools themselves. Attendees should have a working knowledge of an IDE such as Visual Studio 2010, Eclipse or MonoDevelop, and experience or interest in tool development. Tools can come from many areas. Examples would be:

  *   Computer supported cooperative work
  *   Empirical software engineering
  *   Engineering secure software
  *   Mining software repositories
  *   Programming languages and design
  *   Software dependability, safety, and reliability
  *   Software engineering education
  *   Software processes
  *   Software requirements engineering
  *   Software testing and analysis
  *   Software verification
  *   Static analysis and bug-finding
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
We invite position papers, up to 4 pages long, addressing research, ongoing work, ideas, concepts, and critical questions related to the engineering of software tools and plug-ins. We are looking for research results, case studies, position papers and/or technology prototypes clearly identified by the workshop goals. Every submission will be reviewed by at least three members in the program committee and accepted on merit. All accepted papers will be published in ICSE Workshops Volume. Some authors will also be invited to submit a full version of their paper for inclusion in the well-established journal, Software Practice and Experience. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1097-024X

Please upload your contributions through Easy Chair at: http:// easychair.org/conferences/?conf=topi2011

ORGANIZATION
Program Co-chairs:
Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research, USA
Karin Breitman, PUC-Rio, Brazil
David Notkin, University of Washington, USA

Program Committee:
Sunghun Kim, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Tech, China
Sebastian Uchitel, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Diego Garbervetsky, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Baris Aktemur, Ozyegin University, Turkey
Daniel Kroening, University of Oxford, UK
Alessandro Orso, Georgia Tech., USA
Nachi Nagappan, Microsoft Research, USA
Tao Xie, North Carolina State University, USA
Peter Mueller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Marcelo Cataldo, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Nikolai Tillmann, Microsoft Research, USA
Tiziana Margaria-Steffen, University of Potsdam, Germany

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: January 21, 2011
Author notification: February 21, 2011
Camera-ready copy: March 10, 2011
Workshop date: May 28, 2011

CONTACTS:
Contact us on email: topi2011 at inf.puc-rio.br<mailto:topi2011 at inf.puc-rio.br>
Visit us on Website: http://topi2011.inf.puc-rio.br/
Follow us on Twitter: @topi2011
Join us on LinkedIn Groups: TOPI 2011

Judith Bishop | Director Computer Science | Microsoft External Research
Phone: +1 425 706 2004
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