In recent years, software engineering has taken advantage of the ability to collect, process and visualize large quantities of data originating from software development tools and the application of the software products, systems or services themselves. We can use JIRA, Git and BugZilla as some of the sources of data; data which can be used to track progress of software development, visualize the status of the software product and increase the awareness of the impediments for successful product release. We can also follow the success stories of modern consumer companies which collect their customer data to continuously improve the experience of their software products. These modern advances provided us, so far, with the possibilities for lean software development, experiment systems in software engineering and the ability to continuously deploy software products. But these new data-intensive software products, systems or services also create new challenges to their specification, development and quality assurance, where innovative solutions are required.
To be able to take the next step in excelling in software development, we need to be more efficient in utilizing the latest research in mining software repositories, data analytics and visualization of large quantities of data.
The mission of this special session is to provide a platform for exchange of experiences between practitioners and researchers from the communities of software visualization, mining software repositories, software analytics and big data systems in software engineering. Topics:
Miroslaw Staron University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Michael Felderer University of Innsbruck, Austria
Craig Anslow, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Ulf Assarsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Olga Baysal, Carleton University, CA
Fabian Beck, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Ayse Bener, Ryerson University, Canada
Arne Berre, SINTEF, NO
Alexandre Bergel, University of Chile, Chile
Markus Borg, RISE SICS AB, Sweden
Hong-Mei Chen, U Hawaii at Manoa, US
Bojan Cukic, West Virginia U, US
Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Christof Ebert, Vector Consulting, Germany
Steffen Frey, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Davide Fucci, University of Hamburg, Germany
Eitan Farchi, IBM, IL
Steven Frysinger, James Madison Univ., US
Feng Gao, Wuhan Univ. of Science and Technology, CN
Souleiman Hasan, Maynooth University, IE
Regina Hebig, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Rainer Koschke, University of Bremen, Germany
Stephen MacDonell, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Nazim Madhavji, U Western Ontario, CA
Zoltan Mann, U Duisburg-Essen, DE
Zhen Ming, York University Toronto, Canada
Maleknaz Nayebi, University of Calgary, Canada
Louie (Yongrui) Qin, U Huddersfield, UK
Clément Quinton, U Lille 1, FR
Houari Sahraoui, University of Montreal, Canada
Ezequiel Scott, University of Tartu, Estonia
Weiyi Shang, Concordia University, Canada
Burak Turhan, Brunel University, UK
Andy Zaidman, TU Delft, Netherlands