PROMISE 2008 Bridging Industry and Research Gary D. Boetticher Tim Menzies Tom Ostrand Guenther Ruhe

PROMISE 2008 The 4 th International Predictor Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE) Workshop May 12, 2008 Theme: Bridging Industry & Research Much more data added to the PROMISE Repository Special issue Empirical Software Engineering Workshop expanded to 2 days  2 Keynote speakers  More opportunities for discussion  More opportunities for collaboration 1 New Steering Committee Member: Guenther Ruhe 1 Fabulous Dinner

Theme: Bridging Industry & Research The 4 th International Predictor Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE) Workshop May 12, 2008 Industry perspective To what extent does industry embrace research findings and models? Why is it not more?  Is research relevant? practical? capable of application? ultimately beneficial?  Are industry folks uninformed? lazy? too busy? Is the ROI too low? Research perspective Is SE research aligned with industry needs?  Does it need to be or is it just a ‘tenure’ thing? Is empirical research unrealistic?  Too specific? Too complex? Obsolete? How can models be validated?  Correlation? Yes!! Causal? Maybe

PROMISE Repository 2007 to 2008 The 4 th International Predictor Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE) Workshop Others - 9 Effort Prediction - 9 Defect Prediction – 18 Defect Prediction – 32 Effort Prediction - 10 Text Mining - 9 Model-Based SE - 5 General - 7 PROMISE Repository 2007 to 2008 May 12, 2008

PROMISE 2008, May 12 th AM The 4 th International Predictor Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE) Workshop May 12, 2008 Keynote  Risk and Relevance Murray Cantor, Distinguished Engineer, IBM. Papers: Defect Prediction  Comparing Negative Binomial and Recursive Partitioning Models for Fault Prediction Elaine Weyuker, Thomas Ostrand and Robert Bell: AT&T Labs-Research, USA  Comparing Design and Code Metrics for Software Quality Prediction Yue Jiang, Bojan Cukic, Tim Menzies and Nick Bartlow: West Virginia University, USA  Adapting a Fault Prediction Model to Allow Inter Language Reuse Shinya Watanabe, Haruhiko Kaiya and Kenji Kaijiri: Shinshu University, Japan

PROMISE 2008, May 12 th PM The 4 th International Predictor Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE) Workshop May 12, 2008 Discussion  Can Organizations Really Use Predictions? Chair: Tim Menzies: West Virginia University Papers: Effort Estimation  An Empirical Analysis of Software Effort Estimation with Outlier Elimination Yeong-Seok Seo, Kyung-A Yoon and Doo-Hwan Bae: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea  Using Correlation and Accuracy for Identifying Good Estimators Gary Boetticher and Nazim Lokhandwala: University of Houston - Clear Lake, USA Data Quality & Discussion  Data Sets and Data Quality in Software Engineering Gernot Liebchen and Martin Shepperd: Brunel University, UK

PROMISE 2008, May 13 th Early AM The 4 th International Predictor Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE) Workshop May 12, 2008 Keynote  Practical use of defect detection and prediction in the development and maintenance of software Chris Beal Senior Staff Engineer, SUN Microsystems. Paper: Predictor Issues  Implications of Ceiling Effects in Defect Predictors Tim Menzies, Burak Turhan, Ayse Bener, Gregory Gay, Bojan Cukic and Yue Jiang: West Virginia University, USA and Bogazici University, Turkey

PROMISE 2008, May 13 th Late AM The 4 th International Predictor Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE) Workshop May 12, 2008 Papers: Effort Estimation  Multi-criteria Decision Analysis for Customization of Estimation by Analogy Method Jingzhou Li and Guenther Ruhe: University of Calgary, Canada  Confidence in Software Cost Estimation Results based on MMRE and PRED Marcel Korte and Daniel Port: University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Germany and Univ. of Hawaii, USA  Improving Analogy Software Effort Estimation using Fuzzy Feature Subset Selection Algorithm Moammad Azzeh, Daniel Neagu and Peter Cowling: University of Bradford, UK

PROMISE 2008, May 13 th PM The 4 th International Predictor Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE) Workshop May 12, 2008 Papers: Resource Planning and Management  Optimizing Requirements Decisions with KEYS Omid Jalali, Tim Menzies and Martin Feather: West Virginia University, USA & JPL, USA  Complementing Approaches in ERP Effort Estimation Practice: an Industrial Study Maya Daneva: University of Twente, Netherlands  Software Defect Repair Times: A Multiplicative Model Swapna Gokhale and Robert Mullen: University of Connecticut and Cisco Systems, USA Wrap-up Discussion  What is PROMISE? What could PROMISE be?  Should there be a PROMISE 2009? If so, What would it look like?

Dinner: Auerbachs Keller

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