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Papers, Reviews and Columns in the January Issue
The January issue of SEN includes reports and papers on:
- Report from the 2nd International Workshop on Replication in Empirical Software Engineering Research (RESER 2011), by Jonathan L. Krein, Charles D. Knutson, Lutz Prechelt, and Natalia Juristo
- A Dynamic Assertion-based Verification Platform for Validation of UML Designs, by A. Banerjee, S. Ray, P. Dasgupta, P. P. Chakrabarti, S. Ramesh, P. Vignesh, and V. Ganesan
- Facing up to the Inequality of Crowdsourced API Documentation, by Hewijin Christine Jiau and Feng-Pu Yang
- Validation of Object Oriented Metrics Using Open Source Software System: An Empirical Study, by Kalpana Johari and Arvinder Kaur
- Pattern Based Adaptation for Service Oriented Applications, by Vallidevi Krishnamurthy and Chitra Babu
- Assessment of Software Testing Time Using Soft Computing Techniques, by Pradeep Kumar and Yogesh Singh
- Approach and Impact of a Protocol for Selection of Service in Web Service Platform, by Rajni Mohana and Deepak Dahiya
- Improving CUDATM C/C++ encoding Readability to foster Parallel Application Development, by A. Bruno F. L. Santos and Hendrik T. Macedo
- Applying Requirement Based Complexity for the Estimation of Software Development and Testing Effort, by Ashish Sharma and D.S. Kushwaha
- An Analysis of Dependency of Coupling on Software Defects, by Vinay Singh, Vandana Bhattacherjee, and Sandeep Bhattacharjee
- Architecting in Global Software Engineering, by Bedir Tekinerdogan, Semih Cetin, Muhammad Ali Babar, Patricia Lago, and Juho Mäkiö
- Evolution of Software Engineers' Personality Profile, by Daniel Varona, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Yadenis Piñero, and Arif Raza
The book reviews in the January issue are:
- DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X, and Free BSD, Written by Brendan Gregg and Jim Mauro, Reviewed by Greg Cooper
- Managing Projects in Trouble - Achieving Turnaround and Success, Written by Ralph L. Kliem, Reviewed by Robert L. Glass
- Scalability Rules - 50 Principles for Scaling Web Sites, Written by Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher, Reviewed by Georgios Gousios
- The Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (GEF), Written by D. Rubel, J. Wren, and E. Clayberg, Reviewed by Vasile G. Teodorovici
- Continuous Testing with Ruby, Rails and JavaScript, Written by Ben Rady and Rod Coffin, Reviewed by Vasile G. Teodorovici
- A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Written by Mark G. Sobell, Reviewed by Matt Mendell
- Engineering a Compiler, Second Edition, Written by Keith D. Cooper and Linda Torczon, Reviewed by Chris Hathhorn
- The Book of Ruby, Written by Huw Collingbourne, Reviewed by William Del Ra III
- A Bug Hunter's Diary: A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Software Security, Written by Tobias Klein, Reviewed by Will Tracz
The letters and columns in the January issue include the following:
- From the Chair - David S. Rosenblum
- From the Editor - Will Tracz
- Top 10 Downloaded Articles
- Top 10 Most Cited Articles
- SIGSOFT Member Recognition
- Call for Nominations: SIGSOFT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
- Connect with SIGSOFT via Social Media
- ACM Plagiarism Policy
- 5th Workshop on Exception Handling Call for Papers
- ACM Student Research Competition
- ICSE 2012 is Update
- ACM Author-Izer Service - Bernard Rous
- SEN Reviewers Wanted
- SIGSOFT 2012 - FSE-20
- Joint Call for Workshop Contributions ICSE 2012
- Cross Avoid Shelf-ware by Making Your Systems Easy-to-use - Larry Bernstein
- Food for Thought - Michael Wing
- Software Engineering Education (SEEd) - Mark A. Ardis and Peter B. Henderson
- Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes - Mark Doernhoefer
- Risks to the Public - Peter G. Neumann and contributors
Software Engineering Education
Mark Ardis and Peter Henderson's January Software Engineering Education (SEEd) column discusses the differences and similarities between the disciplines of computer science and software engineering, with references to recent articles by David Parnas, Michael Davis, and Ewan Tempero. Mark and Peter note the increase in accredited BSSE programs and discuss trends in required courses. Read Mark and Peter's column in Software Engineering Notes online.
Potpourri 2012
In his January Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes column, Mark Doernhoefer covers web sites that he uses regularly that don't fit into a single topic. There are encyclopedic, open source development, news, archives, surveys, standards, and free online courses.
Check it out in Software Engineering Notes online.
ICSE 2012
It's not too soon to start making plans to participate in ICSE 2012. The conference will be held from 2-9 June 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland.
SIGSOFT 2012 FSE-20
The 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering will be held in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina from 10-17 November 2012. Check the conference website for more information.
ESEC-FSE 2011
The 8th Joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering was held in Szeged, Hungary from 5-9 September, 2011. Here's the conference website.
ICSE 2011
The 33nd Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2011, was held in Honolulu, Hawaii from 21-28 May, 2011. Check the conference website for more information.
SEN online in the Digital Library
The full text of the current issue and all back issues of Software Engineering Notes is now available free online for SIGSOFT members in the ACM Digital Library.