8th ECOOP Workshop on
Quantitative Approaches in
Object-Oriented Software
Engineering (QAOOSE 2004)
Oslo, Tuesday June 15th 2004
List of topics
Area C (Metrics Collection)
- Automatic support for sharing research hypotheses, data and results
- Standards for the collection, comparison and validation of metrics
- Embedding metrics in CASE and application development tools
- Evaluation of metrics collection tools
- Automating collection from formal metrics definition
- Metrics collection in the development process (measurement planning)
- Public repositories for measurement data
- Metrics visualization (*)
- Metrics for component-based systems (*)
- Metrics for web-based systems (*)
Area A (Quality Assessment)
- Measuring non-functional requirements of OO systems
- Quantitative OO and CB design heuristics
· Metric-based design refactoring
- OOD and CBD quality characteristics assessment
- Quantitative impact analysis in OO and CB architectures
- Quantitative assessment of OO analysis/design patterns and frameworks
- Quantitative assessment of behavioral modeling in OO models
- Quantitative assessment of OR and OO database/datawarehouse schemata
- Measurement and quality assessment of components (*)
- Measurement and quality assessment of agent-based systems(*)
- Agent-based Web service architecture as a means of providing QoS(*)
- Quality of Service models(*)
- Instrumentation of Web services for QoS (*)
Area V (Metrics Validation)
- Meta-level metrics
- Formal and empirical validation of metrics
- Metrics and Measurement Theory
- Validation techniques and their limits
- Standard data sets for metrics validation
- Limitations of quality estimation techniques
Area P (Process Management)
- Reliability and rework effort estimates based on design measures
- Reuse evaluation
· Resource estimation models for OO and CB software development
- Quantitative tracking of OO, web services, and CBS development activities
- Empirical studies on the use of measures for process management
- Measurement support in a CBD life cycle
We explicitly solicit position papers related to topics marked with an asterisk (*) as well as papers that document and/or motivate the use of quantitative methods in industrial software processes. These topics were identified as important open research issues in QAOOSE’2003 workshop.
List of topics