TOPI 2012: 2nd Workshop on Developing Tools as Plug-ins

             June  3, 2012

 

Goals

The workshop wants to address the following themes:

  1. ◦identify recent successful tools as plug-ins

  2. ◦categorize the characteristics of good plug-ins

  3. ◦understand interoperability requirements to making tools available across platforms

  4. ◦list which tools lend themselves best to the plug- in approach

  5. ◦specify the medium and long term challenges of tools as plug-ins

Thus, we are more concerned in this workshop with understanding the characteristics and creation of tools as plug-ins, than of the tools themselves.

Areas

  1. ◦Computer supported cooperative work

  2. ◦Empirical software engineering

  3. ◦Engineering secure software

  4. ◦Mining software repositories

  5. ◦Programming languages and design

  6. ◦Software dependability, safety, and reliability

  7. ◦Software engineering education

  8. ◦Software processes

  9. ◦Software requirements engineering

  10. ◦Software testing and analysis

  11. ◦Software verification

  12. ◦Static analysis and bug-finding

Important Dates

  1. ◦Submission:  Abstract: Feb 21

                               Paper:  Feb 24, 2012 23:59:59 UTC-11

  1. ◦Author notification: March 20, 2012

  2. ◦Camera-ready copy: March 29, 2012

  3. ◦Workshop date: June 3, 2012

PC Chairs

  1. ◦Diego Garbervetsky (University of Buenos Aires)

  2. ◦Sunghun Kim (Hong Kong Univ of Science and Tech.)

Program Committee

  1. ◦Michael Barnett  (Microsoft Research)

  2. ◦Karin Breitman  (PUC-Rio)

  3. ◦Cristian Cadar (Imperial College London)

  4. ◦Arie van Deursen  (Delft University of Technology)

  5. ◦Werner Michael Dietl  (University of Washington)

  6. ◦Juan Pablo Galeotti  (University of Buenos Aires)

  7. ◦Sam Malek  (George Mason University)

  8. ◦Marija Mikic-Rakic (Google)

  9. ◦Mark Marron (IMDEA Software)

  10. ◦Martin Nordio  (ETH, Zurich)

  11. ◦Martin Robillard  (McGill University)

  12. ◦Suresh Thummalapenta  (IBM India)

  13. ◦Tom Zimmermann  (Microsoft Research)

Our knowledge as to how to solve software engineering problems is increasingly being encapsulated in tools. These tools are at their strongest when they operate in a pre-existing development environment that can provide integration with existing elements such as compilers, debuggers, profilers and visualizers. Some also exist beyond development time and work with the runtime. A further challenge is to develop tools that can span different – and future - development environments and runtimes. This workshop should of interest to all those interested in developing tools as plug-ins for IDEs, runtimes and browsers. We will examine the categories of problems that are best solved in this way, and look at the future challenges.

Overview

Steering Committee

  1. ◦Judith Bishop (Microsoft Research)

  2. ◦Karin Brietman (PUC-Rio)

  3. ◦David Notkin (University of Washington)

  4. ◦Diego Garbervetsky (University of Buenos Aires)

  5. ◦Sunghun Kim (Hong Kong Univ of Science and Tech.)

Previous editions of this workshop

  1. ◦TOPI2011: co-located with ICSE 2011

Call for Papers

  1. ◦The call is available in PDF-Letter PDF-A4 TXT

News! See list of accepted papers here.