Software Engineering Reading Group 

Why Software Engineering Reading Group?
Through a reading group, we hope to collect our efforts in
    - keeping up-to-date with recent papers in software engineering conferences and journals
    - understanding each other's research interests
    - finding opportunities for potential collaboration

Where and When? 
WHEN: the second and fourth Fridays of each month, 11AM - 12PM  
WHERE: ACES 5.336

Mailing List
Please subscribe the mailing list, se-seminar@utlists.utexas.edu. 
https://utlists.utexas.edu/sympa/subscribe/se-seminar

Tentative Schedule

Jan 30: Organizational Meeting

Feb 13: Safe-Commit Analysis to Facilitate Team Software Development, Jan Wloka, Barbara Ryder, Frank Tip and Xiaoxia Ren
To appear in ICSE 2009, suggested by Miryung Kim
Leader: Miryung

Feb 27: Asking and Answering Questions during a Programming Change Task, Jonathan Sillito, Gail C. Murphy and Kris De Volder
IEEE TSE 2008, suggested by Paul Grisham  
Leader: Reza

Mar 6: A Design Framework for Internet-Scale Event Observation and Notification, David S. Rosenblum and Alexander L. Wolf
FSE 1997, suggested by Christine Julien. This paper has won ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award. (Note that we will be meeting on Mar 6th instead of Mar 13th to avoid the option 3 program teaching days.)
Leader: Christine

Mar 27: Directed Automated Random Testing, Patrice Godefroid, Nils Klarlun, Koushik Sen
PLDI 2005, suggested by Bassem Elkarablieh
Leader: Danhua

Apr 10: Connecting Programming Environments to Support Ad-Hoc Collaboration, Rajesh Hedge and Prasun Dewan
ASE 2008, suggested by Christine Julien
Leader: Seth

Apr 24: TBD Some Testing Paper?
Leader: Shadi

May 8: TBD Some Agent Paper?
Leader: Suratna

Discussion Format

There is no specific format for discussion, but here is some possibility: A volunteer leader will brief about 10-15 minutes on what is the topic of the paper, what are its main results, why the system or idea is an improvement upon the previous works (if any), why does the result matter, what are assumptions and limitations of the paper, what are additional research directions that could build upon, improve, or otherwise augment the paper under discussion. Bring your clarification questions, discussion questions and insights to the meeting, and we can discuss them together.

Papers & Potential Topics on Our Stack 
David and Suratna: software agent
Seth: human factors, evaluation using human subjects
Tony: adaptive middleware
Drew: use of APIs (J. Stylos paper from ICSE 2007) & Ultra large scale systems
Dewayne: Andre van der Hoek's paper on software maintenance and design
Vicki: educational aspects of software engineering
Danhua: fault predication based on change history
Reza: developer produtivity, evaluation using human subjects
Fatemeh: model-driven development

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. Who are the participants?
Software engineering faculty (Dewayne, Suzanne, Sarfraz, Christine and Miryung) are interested in participating in this reading group and we hope many of you can attend. If you are graduate students in Software Engineering track or if you are part of UT Austin ECE or CS program and interested in knowing more about software engineering research, please join us!

Q. Is there a specific focus for this reading group?
For this semester, we do not have a specific topic or focus for the reading group. The goal for this semester is to organize collective efforts for keeping up-to-date with recent papers from software engineering journals and conferences and. We hope to have specific topics for the reading group in the future and we welcome your suggestions!  For example, one possible focus is to read ACM SIGSOFT Impact Paper Award or ICSE's Most Influential Paper Award. 

Q. Can I suggest a paper for the seminar? 
Yes! Please suggest papers that you would like to read and discuss. We have several TBD slots and that is because we are soliciting your input and suggestions. We encourage you to suggest a paper that could potentially interest many of us (not just a single research group). 

Please send any questions or comments to Miryung Kim.