CALL FOR PAPERS ***************************************************************** 6th International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering (TEFSE 2011) 23 May 2011 - Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Satellite workshop of ICSE 2011 Website: http://www.cs.wm.edu/semeru/tefse2011/ ***************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: Feb 5 2011 Formal Challenge submission: Feb 7 2011 Informal Challenge submission: May 7 2011 Notification: Feb 21 2011 Camera-ready copy: March 10 2011 Workshop: 23 May 2011 AIM: Traceability of Emerging Forms of Software Engineering (TEFSE 2011) will bring together researchers and practitioners to examine the challenges of recovering and maintaining traceability for the myriad forms of software engineering artifacts, ranging from user needs to models to source code. The workshop is structured around a series of research challenges that were identified in the 2007 editions and are available on the web-site of the Center of Excellence for Software Traceability. The objective of the 6th edition of TEFSE 2011 is to build on the work the traceability research community has completed in identifying the open traceability challenges. In particular, it is intended to be a working event focused on discussing the main problems related to software artifact traceability and propose possible solutions for such problems. Moreover, the workshop also aims to identify key issues concerning the importance of maintaining the traceability information during software development, to further improve the dialogue between academia and industry and to facilitate technology transfer. SUBMISSIONS We invite submissions of papers in any areas related to the themes and goals of the workshop in the following categories: - Research papers presenting traceability solutions, which are novel or significantly improving existing solutions (7 pages in the ACM SIG proceedings style) - Position papers describing early work addressing a specific traceability problem or proposing new ideas (4 pages in the ACM SIG proceedings style) Papers must describe original work that is not being considered for publication or already published at other forums. Accepted papers will be published in the ICSE workshop proceedings volume and appear in the ACM Digital Library. It is required that at least one author for each accepted paper registers to the workshop *and attends* it to present the paper. Papers shall be submitted in PDF through the TEFSE 2011 EasyChair submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tefse2011 TRACEABILITY CHALLENGE The 6th International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering will host a traceability challenge. The TEFSE Traceability Challenge brings together researchers and practitioners who are interested in applying, comparing, and challenging their traceability tools and approaches on three small/medium size artifact repositories containing different types of artifacts. The main goals of the traceability challenge is to (i) help researchers compare their results with each other and (ii) form a benchmark for the traceability community. The main task to be perfumed in the context of this challenge will be to find interesting insights related to traceability challenges by analyzing three different software repositories. In particular, participants can analyze the software repositories in order to compare different traceability recovery approaches, experiment new link visualization techniques, or propose approaches to extract the link semantic. The complete list of traceability challenges can be found here (http://www.traceabilitycenter.org/downloads/documents/GrandChallenges/). A jury will evaluate the traceability insights and identify the champion taking into account several parameters, such as originality and usefulness. ORGANIZATION General Chair - Denys Poshyvanyk, The College of William and Mary, U.S.A. Program Co-Chairs - Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy - Huzefa Kagdi, Winston-Salem State University, U.S.A. Traceability Challenge Chair - Rocco Oliveto, University of Molise, Italy Webmaster - Malcom Gethers, The College of William and Mary, U.S.A. Steering Committee - George Spanoudakis, City University, U.K. - Andrea Zisman, City University, U.K. - Jonathan I. Maletic, Kent State University, U.S.A. - Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul University, U.S.A. - Jane Huffman Hayes, University of Kentucky, U.S.A. Program Committee - Giuliano Antoniol, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada. - Hazel Asuncion, University of Washington, Bothell, U.S.A. - Brian Berenbach, Siemens Corporate Research, U.S.A. - Janet Burge, Miami University, U.S.A. - Gerardo Canfora, University of Sannio, Italy. - Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul University, U.S.A. - Michael Collard, University of Akron, U.S.A. - Alex Dekhtyar, Cal Poly State University, U.S.A - Alexander Egyed, Johannes Kepler University, Austria. - Olly Gotel, Pace University, U.S.A. - Mark Grechanik, Accenture Technology Labs, U.S.A. - Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, University of Montreal, Canada. - Jane Hayes, University of Kentucky, U.S.A. - Stan Jarzabek, University of Singapore, Singapore. - Marco Lormans, Logica/Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. - Patrick Mader, TU Ilmenau, Germany. - Jonathan Maletic, Kent State University, U.S.A. - Andrian Marcus, Wayne State University, U.S.A. - Tien N. Nguyen, Iowa State University, U.S.A. - Rocco Oliveto, University of Molise, Italy. - Brian Robinson, ABB Research, U.S.A. - George Spanoudakis, City University, U.K. - Tom Zimmermann, Microsoft Research, U.S.A. - Andrea Zisman, City University, U.K.