(DBWORLD) Soft. Eng. Tools Workshop
Jonathan Gray
The Second Australian Workshop on
Constructing Software Engineering Tools
Friday 1 October 1999
Co-located with the
Australian Conference on Requirements Engineering (ACRE99)
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 29-30 September 1999.
Conference http://www.jrcase.mq.edu.au/conference.html
Workshop http://www.jrcase.mq.edu.au/conference/awcset99.html
Sponsored by:
CSIRO-Macquarie University Joint Research Centre for Advanced Systems
Engineering (JRCASE), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
School of Information Technology and Computer Science
University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Organising Committee:
Jonathan Gray, University of Wollongong (Chair/Proceedings)
jpg...@computer.org
Frank Moisiadis, Macquarie University (Local Arrangements)
fmoi...@mpce.mq.edu.au
Anna Liu, CSIRO, Sydney (Publicity/Sponsorship)
anna...@cmis.csiro.au
Emma Milne, Macquarie University (Administrator)
emi...@mpce.mq.edu.au
Automated tools play an important role in the promotion and adoption of
software engineering methods and processes, both within a particular
organisation and within the software engineering community generally. The
development of these tools is itself a significant software engineering
task, requiring a considerable investment of time and resources. There are
a large number of different kinds of automated software engineering tool,
variously known as Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE), Computer
Aided Method Engineering (CAME), Integrated Project Support Environments
(IPSE), Software Engineering Environments (SEE), and meta-CASE tools.
Although these tools differ in the particular methods, activities, and
phases of the software development cycle to which they are applied,
constructors of these tools often face similar implementation issues.
Decisions about host computing platform, implementation language,
conformance with standards and reference models, choice of repository,
integration and interoperability mechanisms, and user interface style have
to be made. The different strategies adopted by tool constructors when
solving these tool development problems is the theme of this symposium.
The inaugural Australian Workshop on Constructing Software Engineering
Tools (AWCSET) was held in Adelaide in November 1998. Following the
success of this event, we have decided to continue the series of workshops.
In 1999, the workshop will be held in conjunction with the 4th Australian
Conference on Requirements Engineering (ACRE) hosted by JRCASE at Macquarie
University, and the workshop should appeal to many ACRE participants. The
workshop will be based around the participants' experience reports of
constructing their SEE, IPSE, CASE, CAME, and meta-CASE tools. The purpose
of the workshop is to bring together an audience of researchers and
practitioners with similar interests and experience, to exchange ideas, and
to learn about different technologies and techniques for software
engineering tool development. The workshop will focus principally on
practical issues such as implementation languages and platforms, repository
organization, tool integration and interoperability, and development
approach. We request the submission of experience reports of various
lengths for inclusion in the proceedings. These reports can be either
extended abstracts (1500-2000 words) or full papers up to 5000 words (12
pages). We request that authors format their submissions according to the
camera ready instructions which can be found on the AWCSET99 web page.
Submissions should be sent to the Workshop Chair as hard copy (see web page
for postal addresses) or electronically as Word, postscript, PDF, or RTF
files. Accepted submissions will be published in the Workshop Proceedings.
Important dates are:
Submission of extended abstracts/papers 26 July 1999
Notification of acceptance/rejection 20 August 1999
Provisional Programme 10 September 1999
Workshop 1 October 1999
Registration for the workshop is open to anyone interested in this area.
The ACRE/AWCSET Administrator is responsible for workshop registration -
see the ACRE99 web page, or contact the Workshop Chair, for more details.
The workshop programme for Friday (1 October) will consist of: an
introduction/overview session (presented by the organisers); an invited
talk by Dr Stephen Crawley (DSTC, Queensland) followed by experience
reports, software demonstrations, discussion and plenary sessions. On
Thursday afternoon (30 September), there will be a common AWCSET/ACRE
session on Tools for Requirements Engineering, followed by a workshop
dinner in the evening.
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