2. ESEM 2008: Kaiserslautern, Germany

Keynote address

• Harald Hönninger, Mark Müller:
  Using empirical methods to improve industrial technology transfer. 1
  

Coordination and communication

• Marcelo Cataldo, James D. Herbsleb, Kathleen M. Carley:
  Socio-technical congruence: a framework for assessing the impact of technical and work dependencies on software development productivity. 2-11
  
• Joakim Pernstål, Ana Magazinovic, Peter Öhman:
  A multiple case study investigating the interaction between manufacturing and development organizations in automotive software engineering. 12-21
  

Testing and analysis

• Emelie Engström, Mats Skoglund, Per Runeson:
  Empirical evaluations of regression test selection techniques: a systematic review. 22-31
  
• Hanna Scott, Claes Wohlin:
  Capture-recapture in software unit testing: a case study. 32-40
  
• Sarah Smith Heckman, Laurie Williams:
  On establishing a benchmark for evaluating static analysis alert prioritization and classification techniques. 41-50
  

Estimation models I

• Dan Port, Marcel Korte:
  Comparative studies of the model evaluation criterions mmre and pred in software cost estimation research. 51-60
  
• Ye Yang, Mei He, Mingshu Li, Qing Wang, Barry W. Boehm:
  Phase distribution of software development effort. 61-69
  
• Nikolaos Mittas, Lefteris Angelis:
  Combining regression and estimation by analogy in a semi-parametric model for software cost estimation. 70-79
  

Modeling and architecture

• Jacek Rosik, Andrew Le Gear, Jim Buckley, Muhammad Ali Babar:
  An industrial case study of architecture conformance. 80-89
  
• Ariadi Nugroho, Michel R. V. Chaudron:
  A survey into the rigor of UML use and its perceived impact on quality and productivity. 90-99
  
• Luigi Lavazza, Vieri Del Bianco, Carla Garavaglia:
  Model-based functional size measurement. 100-109
  

Keynote address

• Mary Shaw:
  Empirical challenges in ultra large scale systems. 110
  

From the programmers' trenches

• Mira Kajko-Mattsson:
  Problems in agile trenches. 111-119
  
• Andrew Begel, Nachiappan Nagappan:
  Pair programming: what's in it for me? 120-128
  
• Medha Umarji, Carolyn B. Seaman:
  Why do programmers avoid metrics? 129-138
  

Inspections

• Kai Petersen, Kari Rönkkö, Claes Wohlin:
  The impact of time controlled reading on software inspection effectiveness and efficiency: a controlled experiment. 139-148
  
• Carolyn B. Seaman, Forrest Shull, Myrna Regardie, Denis Elbert, Raimund L. Feldmann, Yuepu Guo, Sally Godfrey:
  Defect categorization: making use of a decade of widely varying historical data. 149-157
  
• Gursimran Singh Walia, Jeffrey C. Carver:
  Evaluation of capture-recapture models for estimating the abundance of naturally-occurring defects. 158-167
  

Metrics and methodology

• Junzhong Ji, Jingyue Li, Reidar Conradi, Chunnian Liu, Jianqiang Ma, Weibing Chen:
  Some lessons learned in conducting software engineering surveys in china. 168-177
  
• Tore Dybå, Torgeir Dingsøyr:
  Strength of evidence in systematic reviews in software engineering. 178-187
  
• Sandro Morasca:
  Refining the axiomatic definition of internal software attributes. 188-197
  

Faults and failures

• Shujian Wu, Qing Wang, Ye Yang:
  Quantitative analysis of faults and failures with multiple releases of softpm. 198-205
  
• Lucas Layman, Gunnar Kudrjavets, Nachiappan Nagappan:
  Iterative identification of fault-prone binaries using in-process metrics. 206-212
  

Estimation models II

• Vu Nguyen, Bert Steece, Barry W. Boehm:
  A constrained regression technique for cocomo calibration. 213-222
  
• Qi Li, Qing Wang, Ye Yang, Mingshu Li:
  Reducing biases in individual software effort estimations: a combining approach. 223-232
  
• Ana Magazinovic, Joakim Pernstål:
  Any other cost estimation inhibitors? 233-242
  

From the manager's trenches

• Marcus Ciolkowski, Jens Heidrich, Frank Simon, Mathias Radicke:
  Empirical results from using custom-made software project control centers in industrial environments. 243-252
  
• Da Yang, Qing Wang, Mingshu Li, Ye Yang, Kai Ye, Jing Du:
  A survey on software cost estimation in the chinese software industry. 253-262
  
• Yuepu Guo, Carolyn B. Seaman:
  A survey of software project managers on software process change. 263-269
  

Evaluation and comparison of techniques and models

• Christopher Thomson, Mike Holcombe, Tony Cowling, Tony Simons, George Michaelides:
  A pilot study of comparative customer comprehension between extreme x-machine and uml models. 270-272
  
• Rodrigo A. Vivanco, Dean Jin:
  Enhancing predictive models using principal component analysis and search based metric selection: a comparative study. 273-275
  
• Glauco de Figueiredo Carneiro, Rodrigo Chaves Magnavita, Eduardo Spinola, Fabio Spinola, Manoel G. Mendonça:
  Evaluating the usefulness of software visualization in supporting software comprehension activities. 276-278
  
• Yasutaka Kamei, Akito Monden, Shuuji Morisaki, Ken-ichi Matsumoto:
  A hybrid faulty module prediction using association rule mining and logistic regression analysis. 279-281
  
• Michael Wedel, Uwe Jensen, Peter Göhner:
  Mining software code repositories and bug databases using survival analysis models. 282-284
  
• René Noël, Gonzalo Valdes, Marcello Visconti, Hernán Astudillo:
  Adding planned design to xp might help novices' productivity (or might not): two controlled experiments. 285-287
  

Empirical s`tudies of processes and products

• Mikael Svahnberg, Aybüke Aurum, Claes Wohlin:
  Using students as subjects - an empirical evaluation. 288-290
  
• Silvia Teresita Acuña, Marta Gómez, Juan de Lara:
  Empirical study of how personality, team processes and task characteristics relate to satisfaction and software quality. 291-293
  
• Jacky Keung:
  Empirical evaluation of analogy-x for software cost estimation. 294-296
  
• Eric Ras:
  Improving application and understanding of experience packages through learning spaces. 297-299
  
• Marcela Genero, José A. Cruz-Lemus, Danilo Caivano, Silvia Mara Abrahão, Emilio Insfrán, José A. Carsí:
  Does the use of stereotypes improve the comprehension of UML sequence diagrams? 300-302
  
• Yuepu Guo, Sreedevi Sampath:
  Web application fault classification - an exploratory study. 303-305
  

Development of predictive models

• Keld Raaschou, Austen W. Rainer:
  Exposure model for prediction of number of customer reported defects. 306-308
  
• Raimund Moser, Witold Pedrycz, Giancarlo Succi:
  Analysis of the reliability of a subset of change metrics for defect prediction. 309-311
  
• Yasutaka Kamei, Jacky Keung, Akito Monden, Ken-ichi Matsumoto:
  An over-sampling method for analogy-based software effort estimation. 312-314
  
• Yonghee Shin, Laurie Williams:
  An empirical model to predict security vulnerabilities using code complexity metrics. 315-317
  
• Ayse Tosun, Burak Turhan, Ayse Basar Bener:
  Ensemble of software defect predictors: a case study. 318-320
  
• Michael Kläs, Frank Elberzhager, Haruka Nakao:
  Managing software quality through a hybrid defect content and effectiveness model. 321-323
  

Experience in process improvement

• Arilo Claudio Dias Neto, Guilherme Horta Travassos:
  Surveying model based testing approaches characterization attributes. 324-326
  
• Nicola Boffoli, Giovanni Bruno, Danilo Caivano, Gemma Mastelloni:
  Statistical process control for software: a systematic approach. 327-329
  
• Rudolf Ramler, Klaus Wolfmaier:
  Issues and effort in integrating data from heterogeneous software repositories and corporate databases. 330-332
  
• Brian Robinson, Patrick Francis, Fredrik Ekdahl:
  A defect-driven process for software quality improvement. 333-335
  
• Marcos Kalinowski, Kival Chaves Weber, Guilherme Horta Travassos:
  IMPS: an experimentation based investigation of a nationwide software development reference model. 336-338
  
• Melanie Ruhe, Stefan Wagner:
  Using the ProdFlow(TM) approach to address the myth of productivity in r&d organizations. 339-341
  

Empirical evidence and systematic review

• Rialette Pretorius, David Budgen:
  A mapping study on empirical evidence related to the models and forms used in the uml. 342-344
  
• He Zhang, Barbara Kitchenham, Dietmar Pfahl:
  Software process simulation over the past decade: trends discovery from a systematic review. 345-347
  
• Dietmar Winkler, Stefan Biffl, Muhammad Ali Babar:
  An empirical investigation of scenarios gained and lost in architecture evaluation meetings. 348-350
  
• Hidetake Uwano, Akito Monden, Ken-ichi Matsumoto:
  Are good code reviewers also good at design review? 351-353
  
• José Ignacio Panach, Nelly Condori-Fernández, Francisco Valverde, Nathalie Aquino, Oscar Pastor:
  Understandability measurement in an early usability evaluation for model-driven development: an empirical study. 354-356
  

Posters

• Francisco P. Romero, José A. Olivas, Marcela Genero, Mario Piattini:
  Automatic extraction of the main terminology used in empirical software engineering through text mining techniques. 357-358
  
• Werner Heijstek, Michel R. V. Chaudron:
  Exploring effort distribution in RUP projects. 359
  
• Koji Toda, Akito Monden, Ken-ichi Matsumoto:
  Fit data selection for software effort estimation models. 360-361