1. ISESE 2002: Nara, Japan

Keynote Address

• Laszlo A. Belady:
  Beyond Software, Beyond Engineering. 3-6
  

Session 1: Experimental Methods

• Forrest Shull, Victor R. Basili, Jeffrey Carver, José Carlos Maldonado, Guilherme Horta Travassos, Manoel G. Mendonça, Sandra Camargo Pinto Ferraz Fabbri:
  Replicating Software Engineering Experiments: Addressing the Tacit Knowledge Problem. 7-16
  
• Dag I. K. Sjøberg, Bente Anda, Erik Arisholm, Tore Dybå, Magne Jørgensen, Amela Karahasanovic, Espen Frimann Koren, Marek Vokác:
  Conducting Realistic Experiments in Software Engineering. 17-26
  
• Claes Wohlin:
  Is Prior Knowledge of a Programming Language Important for Software Quality?. 27-36
  

Session 2A: Software Qualit

• Carina Andersson, Per Runeson:
  Verification and Validation in Industry -- A Qualitative Survey on the State of Practice. 37-47
  
• Kazuyuki Shima, Yasuhiro Takemura, Ken-ichi Matsumoto:
  An Approach to Experimental Evaluation of Software Understandability. 48-55
  
• Bernard Wong:
  The Appropriateness of Gutman's Means-End Chain Model in Software Evaluation. 56-68
  

Session 2B: Estimation

• Hiroyuki Okamura, Yasuhiro Watanabe, Tadashi Dohi:
  Estimating Mixed Software Reliability Models Based on the EM Algorithm. 69-78
  
• Emilia Mendes, Nile Mosley:
  Further Investigation into the Use of CBR and Stepwise Regression to Predict Development Effort for Web Hypermedia Applications. 79-90
  
• Lei Li, Kalyanaraman Vaidyanathan, Kishor S. Trivedi:
  An Approach for Estimation of Software Aging in a Web Server. 91-102
  

Session 3: Process Improvement

• Maria Teresa Baldassarre, Danilo Caivano, Corrado Aaron Visaggio, Giuseppe Visaggio:
  ProMisE: A Framework for Process Models Customization to the Operative Context. 103-110
  
• Daniela Damian, Didar Zowghi, Lakshminarayanan Vaidyanathasamy, Yogendra Pal:
  An Industrial Experience in Process Improvement: An Early Assessment at the Australian Center for Unisys Software. 111-126
  

Session 4: Inspections

• Thomas Thelin, Per Runeson, Claes Wohlin, Thomas Olsson, Carina Andersson:
  How much Information is Needed for Usage-Based Reading? -- A Series of Experiments. 127-138
  
• Shinji Uchida, Akito Monden, Hajimu Iida, Ken-ichi Matsumoto, Hideo Kudo:
  A Multiple-View Analysis Model of Debugging Processes. 139-147
  
• Giedre Sabaliauskaite, Fumikazu Matsukawa, Shinji Kusumoto, Katsuro Inoue:
  An Experimental Comparison of Checklist-Based Reading and Perspective-Based Reading for UML Design Document Inspection. 148-160
  

Session 5: Testing

• Natalia Juristo Juzgado, Ana María Moreno, Sira Vegas:
  A Survey on Testing Technique Empirical Studies: How Limited is our Knowledge. 161-172
  
• Tomoko Matsumura, Akito Monden, Ken-ichi Matsumoto:
  The Detection of Faulty Code Violating Implicit Coding Rules. 173-182
  
• Masayuki Hirayama, Tetsuya Yamamoto, Jiro Okayasu, Osamu Mizuno, Tohru Kikuno:
  Elimination of Crucial Faults by a New Selective Testing Method. 183-194
  

Session 6: Architecture and Design

• Marcela Genero, Mario Piattini, Coral Calero:
  Empirical Validation of Class Diagram Metrics. 195-203
  
• Kari Rönkkö, Olle Lindeberg, Yvonne Dittrich:
  'Bad Practice' or 'Bad Methods' -- Are Software Engineering and Ethnographic Discourses Incompatible?. 204-210
  
• Kari Smolander:
  Four Metaphors of Architecture in Software Organizations: Finding Out the Meaning of Architecture in Practice. 211-222