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Promise 2006
Gary Boetticher, Ph.D.
Co-chair
[email protected]
Tim Menzies, Ph.D.
Co-chair
[email protected]
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Past, future
• 2004:
– Predictive Software Modeling, Chicago,
• Jelber Sayyad Shirabad, Tim Lethbridge,
Stan Matwin
• 2005:
– Promise data repository on-line
• http://promise.site.uottawa.ca/
SERepository/
– Promise1, St Louis (with ICSE)
• Tim Menzies
& Jelber
– IEEE Software Special Issue (Nov’05)
• The Promise of Public Software Engineering
Data Repositories
• Guest Editor: Bojan Cukic
• 2006:
– Promise2, Philadelphia (with ICSM)
• Gary Boetticher & Tim & ICSM
• 2007:
– Promise3, Minnesota (with ?ICSE)
• You? & Gary & Tim
• ICSE workshop proposals due Oct 6
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Some details
• Last thing today: discussion
– Are we living up to the
promise of PROMISE?
– Should there be a PROMISE 2007?
• 2006 Proceedings
– On CD, at web site
– Authors retain copyright
• Sorry, no special issue this year
– Submission base needs to be wider
– Promise’06 & Promise’07
authors can submit
• A.M. & P.M. coffee:
– With ICSM (with thanks)
• Dinner tonight
– We’ll buy. Where to go?
• Receipts: see Tim M.
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What makes
PROMISE different?
• Put up or shut up
– If you conclude X, give others enough
information to check X
• SE experiments
– Repeatable, refutable, improvable
• Promise repository
– http://promise.site.uottawa.ca/
SERepository/
– 2004:
• “It’ll never work”- Lionel Briand,
– 2006
• Currently, 2 dozen data sets
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Challenges
• Where is the science?
– Currently, no repetition
• Where are the new technologies?
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Text mining
Feature subset selection
Bayes nets
SVDDs
Etc
• Where are the landmark results?
– Stop sweating the petty things
• E.g. 2% mean accuracy
improvements
– Report significant improvements
over older work
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Are we getting
the big picture?
• We are software engineers. Practitioners
• Where are studies on the feedback loop?
• What are the impacts of our learned
theories on:
– An evolving model?
– The organization?
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Invited Speaker
• Predictive Models in Software
Engineering: State-of-the-Art,
Needs, and Challenges
– Lionel Briand Ph.D.
• Carleton University Software Quality
Engineering Laboratory,
Ottawa, Canada
– Canada Research Chair in Software
Quality Engineering,
– co-editor in chief of Empirical Software
Engineering: An International Journal
– “I am now a proud Canadian (or
should I say Canadien) though I still
have a weakness for pungent
cheeses. (well, nobody is perfect and I
did not have to give it up to become a
"canuck".)”
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