10th International Software
Product Line Conference
(SPLC 2006)
21-24 August 2006
Baltimore,
Maryland, USA
Conference Workshops
Workshop Chair: Birgit Geppert, AVAYA Labs
Note: Some of the workshops extended their submission deadline. Please check the workshop descriptions for more detail. * denotes workshops with an extended deadline.
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21 August 2006 |
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W2* |
APLE - 1st International Workshop on Agile Product Line
Engineering |
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W3 |
Managing Variability for Software Product Lines: Working
With Variability Mechanisms |
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22 August 2006 |
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W4* |
SPLiT'06: 3rd Workshop on Software Product Line Testing
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W5* |
OSSPL - First International Workshop on Open Source Software and
Product Lines |
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Note: In addition to the above workshops, the doctoral symposium will be held on the 22nd. |
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DS |
Software Product Lines Doctoral Symposium |
Workshop 2 (W2)
APLE - 1st
International Workshop on Agile Product Line Engineering
http://www.lsi.upc.edu/events/aple/
21
August 2006
Organizers/Contacts:
Kendra Cooper, Dept. of Computer
Science, University of Texas at Dallas - Texas, USA
Xavier Franch, Software Department,
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - Catalunya, Spain
Description
The need to rapidly
develop high quality, complex software continues to drive research in a number
of (separate) areas in the software engineering community. For example,
software product line development techniques have been of keen interest as
means to re-use and tailor technical assets including models (requirements
specifications, design), implementation, and test cases. A main focus in this
area is to effectively create sets of related products by re-using and
tailoring managed assets. Agile development techniques have also been proposed
to rapidly develop software by focusing on developing working code; they seek
to minimize the amount of documentation, process definition, and model
development. It is interesting to note that although the goals of the two
techniques have similarities (rapidly develop high quality, complex software),
the solutions to realize the goals in the techniques seem to conflict. The
theme of this workshop is to probe the following question: Given the similar
goals but different foci of agile and product-line development techniques, to
what degree can (or should) they be integrated?
Publication
of Selected Papers
It's our pleasure to announce a special issue on
"Agile Product Line Engineering" of the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS,
Elsevier). Extended versions of selected papers presented at this workshop will
be considered for publication in this issue.
Submission (extended!): The extended deadline for submissions is June 9, 2006. For more information please visit the workshop homepage at http://www.lsi.upc.edu/events/aple/.
Workshop 3 (W3)
Managing
Variability for Software Product Lines: Working With Variability Mechanisms
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/splc2006/variability_workshop.html
21
August 2006
Organizers:
Paul Clements, Software Engineering
Institute
Dirk Muthig, Fraunhofer
Institute for Experimental Software Engineering
Contact: clements@sei.cmu.edu
Description
Managing variability
is the essence of software product line practice. Variability enters the
product line picture through the need for different features, deployment on
different platforms, the desire for different quality attributes, and the
accommodation of different deployment scenarios. Eventually, every need for
variability manifests itself in one way or another in the actual artifacts that
populate a product line's core asset base. "Variability mechanisms" is the name
we give to the constructs that achieve variation at the artifact level.
Selecting the correct variability mechanism(s) can have a dramatic effect on
the cost to deploy new products, react to evolutionary pressures, and in
general maintain and grow the product line. But selection remains an ad hoc
process in nearly all product line organizations. This workshop is intended to
fill the void between variability requirements visible to those who deal with
features and other product-level concerns, and the variability mechanisms
visible to creators and consumers of a product line's core assets. The goal of
the workshop is to begin to codify a body of knowledge for the informed and
purposeful selection of variability mechanisms to use in a software product
line's core assets. The workshop will be highly interactive and focused on
making tangible progress towards answering specific questions relating to best
practices in variability management.
Submission: The deadline for submissions is July 7, 2006. For more information please visit the workshop homepage at http://www.sei.cmu.edu/splc2006/variability_workshop.html.
Workshop 4 (W4)
SPLiT 2006 - 3rd
Workshop on Software Product Line Testing
http://www.biglever.com/split2006/
Organizers:
Peter
Knauber, Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Charles Krueger, BigLever Software,
Austin, TX, USA
Tim Trew, Philips
Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Contact: split@biglever.com
Description
Product line
engineering (PLE) has become a major topic in industrial software development,
and many organizations have started to consider PLE as state of the practice.
One topic that needs greater emphasis is testing of product lines. Product line
testing is crucial to the successful establishment of PLE technology in an
organization.
The workshop addresses some of the open fundamental challenges of testing in a PLE setting. Given the improvements in productivity that PLE delivers to development, how does a test organization keep pace? To what extent can we test reusable assets and how much can this reduce the testing obligations for each product? What kinds of changes or extensions have to be made to the PL infrastructure to support testing appropriately? Can we leverage our established testing tools and procedures? What properties of a PL architecture improve the testability of reusable assets and products and how can these be enforced during architectural design? Are there PLE techniques that can provide similar efficiency gains for testing as are possible for development? Without adequate answers, testing becomes the bottleneck in PLE.
In this workshop we aim to bring together both researchers and practitioners on all aspects of PL testing, from designing for testability, through test coverage, to testing tools. We are especially interested in exchanging industrial experience in PL testing and comparing different approaches to enable an integration of different ideas. Our goal is to provide a context for such an information exchange and to provide an opportunity to discuss innovative ideas, setting a research agenda, and starting collaborations on this topic. We intend to invite experts not only from product-line engineering, but also testing experts.
Submission (extended!): The extended deadline for submissions is June 19, 2006. For more information please visit the workshop homepage at http://www.biglever.com/split2006/.
Workshop 5 (W5)
OSSPL - First
International Workshop on Open Source Software and Product Lines
http://www.dsi.unifi.it/osspl06/
22
August 2006
Organizers:
Frank van der Linden,
Philips Medical Systems, The Netherlands
Piergiorgio Di Giacomo, University of
Florence, Firenze, Italy
Contact: osspl06@dsi.unifi.it
Description
Open source software
is getting much attention lately. Using open source software appears to be a
profitable way to obtain good software. This is also applicable for
organizations doing product line engineering. On the other hand, because of the
diverse use of open source software, product line development is an attractive
way of working in open source communities. However, at present open source and
product line development are not related. This workshop aims to get a better
understanding between the two communities to get an insight how they can profit
from each other.
The workshop deals with the following issues:
- Ownership, control and management of product line assets in an open source community
- Visibility of the code: when it is valuable to share proprietary code and how to take the right decision.
- Creation of different levels of architecture visibility: proprietary, among closed consortium, public. Is this possible?
- Product line requirements, roadmaps and planning in open source development
- Using the open source community to evolve components and being explicit about variability
- Variability representation and management in an open source community
- Open source for the platform and in applications
- Cohabitation of product line management and agile processes
- Open source asset management tools in product line development
- The meaning of domain and application engineering in an open source context
- Recognition and recovery of a product line in an open source asset base
- Aspects dealing with evolutionary, variability or distribution of development relating to legal risks involving: liability, warranties, patent infringements etc.
Submission (extended!): The extended deadline for submissions is June 15, 2006. For more information please visit the workshop homepage at http://www.dsi.unifi.it/osspl06/.
Software Product Lines Doctoral Symposium
(DS)
http://www1.isti.cnr.it/SPL-DS-2006/
22
August 2006
Doctoral
Symposium Organizers:
Isabel John - Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Len
Bass - Software Engineering Institute, USA
Giuseppe Lami - I.S.T.I./C.N.R.,
Italy
Contact: SPL-DS@isti.cnr.it
Call for Papers: http://www1.isti.cnr.it/SPL-DS-2006/DS-CFP.html
Description
The doctoral
symposium provides a platform for young researchers to present their work to an
international audience and discuss it with each other and with experts in the
field. Experienced researchers will comment on the presented work and give
feedback for further development. This event is a unique opportunity for the
presenting young researchers and doctoral students to receive invaluable expert
feedback, make contact with other researchers in the field, professionally
present their work, and become familiar with other approaches and future
research topics. The doctoral symposium addresses research activities in the
field of software product lines (SPLs). Topics of interest include all aspects
of the development phases, management, evaluation, reuse, and maintenance of
SPLs. The peculiarity of this doctoral symposium is that it is addressed
specifically to young researchers with original ideas and initiatives in the
SPL field. Although it addresses mainly PhD work in progress, we also encourage
the submission of other work in progress such as master's degree or diploma
theses.
| Important Dates: Submission deadline Camera ready version Symposium date |
12 May 2006 19 June 2006 14 July 2006 22 August 2006 |
Panelists/Reviewers:
Birgit
Geppert - Avaya Labs, USA
Andre van der Hoek - University of California,
USA
Kyo Kang - POSTECH, Korea
David Weiss - Avaya Labs, USA
