1. Empirical Software Engineering Research Project
MEXT supported projects
Project leader: Koji Torii, NAIST
e-Society: Software Infrastructure Development Projects
8 projects, 1.2 billion JPY in total in financial 2003
5 years project, 200 million JPY in financial 2003
Annually reviewed by MEXT
New office in Senri-Chuo in Osaka
Matching fund
needs industrial money
MEXT demands the project not only do research, but make an impact on industry

2. Our Approach Need short term results
Create software tools as well as research outputs
Gather engineers from companies and develop tools

3. Project Hierarchy Technical Committees -Metrics -Security
-Process Improvement
-Formal Method 　…
Associate Companies
Associate Universities
Core Company
-NTT Software
-Hitachi
-Hitachi GP
-SRA
Core Univ.
-NAIST
-Osaka Univ.
Senri Lab
-Manager
-Secretary
-Company engineers
-Univ. researchers

4. Target:Empirical SE Data Infrastructure
Analysis
Open-source Software
Data Collection
Feedback
Associate Organizations
Software Development Organization

5. Current Target Development Environment
Open source development tools
CVS: versioning
MailMan: main management
Gnats: bug trace
Existing Web interface
Corporate　Source　（ZeeSource）

6. Standardizing Empirical SE Data
Product data
History by CVS
Product definition in XML
Process Data
Event data in XML
Transform from various log files

7. System Architecture GUI (5) PostgreSQL＋XML Plug-in (6) (6-2) (6-3)
Manager
Developer
Analysis Tools(Next release)
Estimation Tools
Similarity Tools
...
GUI
(5)
PostgreSQL＋XML Plug-in
(6)
(6-2)
(6-3)
(6-4)
(5-0)
XML-DB
Repository
Standardized Data
RubyScript
Translator1
Translator3
GUI
Translator2
Other Tools
(Next release)
(2)
(3)
(4)
Manager
Developer
(1)
Option１
Option２
CVS
Mail
Gnats (bug-rep.)
Log
&
objects
CorporateSource
Software Development Environments

8. Future Plan Demonstrate a first prototype at the workshop in Nov. 2003
Distribute the prototype to companies in 2004
Organize a consortium for promotion
Write papers and demonstrate the prototype in various conferences

9. 5 Year Goals and Current Action Items
5 Year Goal: To inspire collaborative work by industry and academia on developing effective approaches to high-productivity, high-reliability, and high-security software
Current Action Items:
Publicizing Empirical Software Engineering approach and industry/academic collaboration
Promote experimental prototype and initiate collaborative relations
Develop future plans