Accepted Papers

Call for Workshops

Following the tradition of previous conferences, EASE 2023 will host a number of workshops, during the day after the main conference (Friday, 16 June). The workshops will provide a collaborative forum to exchange recent and/or preliminary results, to conduct intensive discussions on a particular topic, or to coordinate efforts between representatives of a technical community. They are intended as a forum for lively discussions of innovative ideas, recent progress, or practical experience on evidence-based software engineering. Each workshop should provide a balanced distribution of its time for both presentations of papers and discussions. The duration of these workshops is in general one day, but we encourage the submission of half-day workshop proposals on focused topics as well.

Important dates:

• Workshop proposal submission: December 2nd, 2022
• Workshop proposal notification: December 16th, 2022
• Workshop call for papers and website ready: January 20th, 2023
• Submission deadline for workshop papers: March 10th, 2023
• Notification of authors about acceptance/rejection of workshop papers: April 14th, 2023
• Camera ready papers for workshops: April 28th, 2023
• Early registration deadline for authors: April 28th, 2023

Submission process

Submit your workshop proposal electronically in PDF using the ACM Proceedings Format through the EASE 2023 EasyChair submission site.

Please adhere to the workshop proposal guidelines below, providing the requested information about the proposed workshop, using at most five pages. Please include the one-page draft of your planned Call for Papers in the proposal. In order to ensure proper coordination with the deadlines of the main conference, the deadlines specified in Important Dates above have to be respected by your plan for your workshop.

Proceedings

There will be joint workshop proceedings in the ACM Digital Library that include papers from all workshops. For each workshop, the joint proceedings will include: an opening message from the organizers, including, if applicable, the workshop program committee, and all peer-reviewed papers presented at the workshop.

Formatting instructions are available here for both LaTeX and Word users. LaTeX users must use the provided acmart.cls and ACM-Reference-Format.bst without modification, enable the conference format in the preamble of the document (i.e., \documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart}), and use the ACM reference format for the bibliography (i.e., \bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}). The review option adds line numbers, thereby allowing referees to refer to specific lines in their comments. Papers should have at least 5 pages. We propose page limits of 5 pages for short papers and 10 pages for full papers following the same style and format of the main track of the Conference.

Word users make sure you are using Times New Roman on the body of your text, author information, and section titles; and using Helvetica on the paper title.

Proposal guidelines

A workshop proposal must include the following information:

1. Workshop title
• Organizers and primary contact (name / affiliation / email)
• Abstract
2. Motivation
• Objectives
• Intended audience
• Topics of interest
• Relevance (in particular to the EASE community)
• Context (any past events related to your workshop including previous workshops of the current organizers)
3. Organization
• Details on the organizers
• Workshop program committee (indicated as finalized or expected)
4. Workshop format
• Planned deadlines
• Workshops are expected to adhere to the timing provided by the main conference
• Intended paper format
• For short papers, the limit is five (5) pages
• For full papers, the limit is ten (10) pages
• Evaluation process
• Intended workshop format (including duration, number of presentations, and planned keynotes)
• How many participants do you expect?
• What kind of equipment do you need (e.g., data projector, computer, whiteboard)?
5. Additional material
• Workshop web page (URL of the draft web page, if one exists)
• Draft Call for papers for the Workshop (a one page Call for papers that you intend to send out if your workshop is accepted)

Participation

EASE 2022 is hoping and planning for a fully in-person event in Oulu. However, we also recognize the continued difficulties related to COVID-19 and will try to be flexible if necessary. If you would like to incorporate some level of hybrid or virtual participation in your workshop, please discuss this with the Workshop Chairs.

About

Blockchain technologies are rapidly evolving and have been applied to diverse domains such as finance, supply chains and logistics, industry 4.0/5.0, energy, smart cities, health care, and social good. Many governments have listed blockchain technology as a key enabler of their future economy, together with AI and machine learning, and are actively promoting blockchain adoption through various grants and pilots. Consequently, we can expect to see many novel software applications based on blockchain technologies. Software engineering theories and practices need to be evaluated, adapted, and extended to effectively develop high-quality and secure blockchain-based applications. The 4th edition of the workshop plans to build on the success of previsions editions to promote the sound adoption of software engineering practices, evaluation, and assessment in developing blockchains and their applications.

Accepted Paper

• Perceived Trust in Blockchain Systems: An Interview-based Survey (Huikun Liu, Yanze Wang, Zhaowei Jiang, He Zhang, Jingyue Li, Sigurd Eilerås, and Håkon Pelsholen Busterud)
• Decentralised Autonomous Organisations for Public Procurement (Felix Monteiro and Miguel Correia)

Call for Papers

We welcome original and unpublished research submissions that use and empirically evaluate software engineering approaches and theories for developing blockchain-based applications. The related software engineering technologies include, but are not limited to:

• Blockchain-Based Application Architecture
• Requirement engineering
• Design patterns and reference architecture
• Design/modelling notations, tools, and analysis
• Quality of Smart Contracts and Blockchain-Based Applications
• Reliability and fault tolerance
• Quality assurance
• Security and privacy
• Software engineering analytics
• Software Processes for Blockchain-Based Applications
• Model-driven engineering
• Software testing technologies and tools
• Estimating effort for developing and testing applications
• Software processes such as Agile, DevOps, and AIOps
• Software engineering issues related to managing blockchain platforms and applications
• Experience and lessons learned from transferring blockchain-based applications to the industry
• Experience and lessons learned from migrating conventional applications to blockchain
• Software project management and knowledge management

Important Dates

• Paper submission – March 10, 2023 March 24, 2023 (Extended)
• Author notification – April 14, 2023
• Camera-ready submission – April 28, 2023
• Early registration (for authors) – May 5, 2023
• Workshop – June 16, 2023

Submissions

We accept the following 2 types of submissions:

• Full research paper – up to 8 pages.
• Short paper or industrial experience report – up to 4 pages

Submitted papers must be written in English, contain original unpublished works, conform to the ACM Proceedings Format (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template), and be in PDF format. The workshop enforces the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism-overview).

Please submit manuscripts via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=bsew23), and in pdf format. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by no less than 2 members of the program committee. Accepted papers will be in the main proceeding of EASE 2023, which the ACM Digital Library will publish.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register by the Early Registration deadline.

Keynote speaker

Denis Avrilionis, Founder & CEO, Compellio

Keynote title - Software Architectures for Enterprise DLT-Enabled Systems

Organizing committee

Shanshan Li, Software Institute, Nanjing University, China, (lss@nju.edu.cn)

Miguel Correia, INESC-ID / IST Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. (miguel.p.correia@tecnico.ulisboa.pt)

H.M.N. Dilum Bandara, CSIRO Data61 / University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. (Dilum.Bandara@data61.csiro.au)

Track Committee

Mariusz Nowostawski, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. (mariusz.nowostawski@ntnu.no)

Shanshan Jiang, SINTEF, Norway. (Shanshan.Jiang@sintef.no)

Lam Nguyen, CSIRO Data61, Australia. (Lam.Nguyen@data61.csiro.au)

Jingyue Li, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (jingyue@idi.ntnu.no)

Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF Digital. (gilje@sintef.no)

Sheikh Idrees

Xiwei Xu, CSIRO Data61, Australia. (Xiwei.Xu@data61.csiro.au)

Support

BIG ERA Chair (European Commission grant agreement 952226)

INESC-ID (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia UIDB/50021/2020)

Please see the details via this link:

https://sites.google.com/view/devopsqmw/home

Aim of the workshop

The LEARNER (evaLuation and assEssment in softwARe eNgineers’ Education and tRaining) 2023 workshop aims to bring together researchers, educators, and trainers from both academia and industry to discuss and advance the state of the art on the evaluation and assessment of education and training of present and future software engineers. In other words, the goal of LEARNER is to assess and evaluate consolidated educational and training means to let present and future software engineers acquire the required soft and hard skills, as well as to experiment (and then assess and evaluate) novel educational and training means, including the use of any resource or technology for educational and training purposes of software engineers. LEARNER 2023 is also interested in evaluating and assessing both soft and hard skills required to software engineers, as well as engagement and retention (e.g., gender balance) in the education and training of software engineers.

Scope

Studying Software Engineering and acquiring its related (hard and soft) skills open different job opportunities; for instance, software engineers can specialize as software testers, software architects, project managers etc. Besides these “traditional” job opportunities, there are emerging areas like, for instance, artificial intelligence and software security, which offer new job opportunities for software engineers. However, Software Engineering is not easy to teach and learn, and it is not accessible to everyone; moreover, its related (hard and soft) skills are not easy to acquire. Understanding how to improve aspects related to learning, teaching, and accessibility of this discipline, including the acquisition of its related (hard and soft) skills, is of primary relevance to educators, trainers, and researchers, and even more to the labor maker, which demands an ever-increasing number of software engineers having a rich set of soft and hard skills. Gathering empirical evidence by using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed research is a necessary step to increase our body of knowledge in software engineers’ education and training.

List of Topics

LEARNER 2023 encourages contributions covering any topic related to (quantitative, qualitative, and mixed) research in the context of software engineers’ education and training. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Educational and training methods for acquiring hard and soft skills required to software engineers;
• Role of soft skills and human factors in the education and training of software engineers;
• Measurement of hard skills, as well as soft skills required to software engineers;
• Pedagogical approaches supporting software engineers' education and training in distributed and remote settings;
• Education and training of software engineers in university and workplace settings;
• Online platforms and software tools specifically designed or simply used for education and training purposes of software engineers;
• Means (e.g. coding clubs, boot camps, contests, and serious games) for approaching primary and secondary students to Software Engineering and related hard skills;
• Certification of software engineers in different specialization areas (e.g. software security);
• Continuing training of software engineers;
• Engagement and retention (e.g. gender balance) in software engineers' education and training.

As for the special theme, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Educational and training methods for software testing;
• Models, methods, and techniques for evaluating the effectiveness of software testing education;
• Evaluation on innovative software testing teaching processes;
• Role of soft skills and human factors in the education and training of software testers;
• Metrics, measures and assessment techniques to evaluate knowledge in testing courses;
• Tools specifically designed for education and training of software testing;
• Any means for improving software Testing education and training not listed above.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline for workshop: March 10th, 2023
• Notification of authors about acceptance/rejection of workshop papers: April 14th, 2023
• Camera-ready papers for workshop: April 28th, 2023
• Early registration deadline for authors: April 28th, 2023
• Workshop day: June 16th, 2023
• Early bird registration closes: May 15th, 2023

Organizers

Nicola Capece, University of Basilicata, Italy. Email: nicola-dot-capece-at-unibas-dot-it

Simone Romano, University of Salerno, Italy. Email: siromano-at-unisa-dot-it

Letizia Jaccheri, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. Email: letizia-dot-jaccheri-at-ntnu-dot-no

Anna Rita Fasolino, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy. Email: fasolino-at-unina-dot-fi

Beatriz Marín, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain. Email: bmarin-at-dsic-dot-upv-dot-es

Niels Doorn, Open Universiteit and NHL Stenden, The Netherlands. Email: niels.doorn-at-ou-dot-nl, niels.doorn-at-nhlstenden-dot-com

Please see the details via this link: https://unibas3d.github.io/learner/

Find more information at: https://www.softwareengineeringresearch.net/SSW/index.html

About the Workshop

Over the last decade, an increasing number of organizations have started focusing on software security because modern applications typically operate in a hostile network-based environment. Traditionally, organizations have tried to address security concerns by finding and fixing security vulnerabilities once the software development cycle is completed. A software needs to be secured against any unauthorized users, and this can be achieved by incorporating security mechanisms into different phases of the software development lifecycle. However, incorporating security practices and processes into different phases of the software development life cycle remains a challenge. Software security area is evolving due to different factors such as increasing failure rates of software projects, economic downturn, and software development without security in mind, globalization and outsourcing. The empirical software engineering researchers need new approaches, models, and tools for addressing various emerging challenges of software security in this modern age. There is a need for using empirical evidence to support different new approaches in the software security research and practice which will provide researchers with innovative knowledge on which to develop different software security processes and practices. This will also help in improving existing software security approaches and processes in order to effectively develop secure software. This workshop will bring together and advance the work that has been undertaken on software security. The outcome of this workshop will provide researchers and practitioners with a firm basis on which to develop different practices/ tools/ techniques that are based on an understanding of how and where they fit into secure software development and research. New practices/ tools/ techniques could then be developed targeting secure software engineering community.

Aim of the workshop

The aim of this workshop is to provide a venue to discuss software security challenges, opportunities and lessons learned under the umbrella of empirical software engineering and software evaluation. This workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and governments to report empirical studies and discuss the issues relating to software security. This workshop will seek submissions reporting original, unpublished research on software security covering any aspect of experimental, empirical and evidence-based software engineering, for example the use of quantitative and qualitative methods for empirical evaluation of software security techniques, processes, methods, tools and best practices. This will be a one-day paper-based presentations workshop, which will accept research and software industry papers on the topic of software security.

Call for Papers

This workshop aspires to provide an opportunity for the empirical software engineering researchers and practitioners to present the state of the art, state of the practice, and the future directions on the following topics of software security.

• Systematic literature reviews and mapping studies on software security
• Tertiary studies on software security
• Empirically based decision making
• Controlled experiments and quasi-experiments
• Case studies, surveys, observational studies, Delphi studies, field studies on software security
• Empirical studies on software security using qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods
• Evaluation of software security techniques, tools and models
• Secure software requirements
• Secure software design
• Secure software coding
• Secure software testing
• Secure software acceptance
• Secure software deployment, operations and maintenance
• Secure software acquisition
• SProject management for secure software development
• Software security in global projects
• Secure software metrics
• Best practices and lessons learned in secure software development projects

Paper Submission

The maximum page length for the workshop is 6 pages. Workshop proceedings will be integrated in the EASE 2020 conference companion proceedings. Submitted papers must be written in English, contain original unpublished work, and conform to the ACM proceedings format. Please submit manuscripts via EasyChair, and in pdf format: https://conf.researchr.org/home/ease-2023

Important Dates

• Papers submission: March 10, 2023
• Notifications to authors: April 14, 2023
• Camera-ready: April 28, 2023
• Early registration: May 5, 2023
• Workshop date: June 16, 2023

Workshop Program Committee

Asif Gill, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Azeem Akbar, Lappeeranta-Lahti University of Technology, Finland

Siffat Ullah Khan, Malakand University, Pakistan

Saqib Ali, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

Samuel Ajila, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Richard Lai, La Trobe University, Australia

Sajid Anwer, Griffith University, Australia

Workshop Chairs

Sajjad Mahmood

Associate Professor of software engineering at the Information and Computer Science Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. He received his Ph.D. from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Prior to pursuing his Ph.D., he also worked as a software engineer in the United States and Australia. He is an active researcher in the field of software engineering and has published more than 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. He has worked as a principal and co-investigator in a number of research projects that investigate issues related to global software development and secure software development. His research interests include empirical software engineering, evidence-based software engineering, global software development, secure software development, and software process improvement in general.

Mohammad Alshayeb

Professor of software engineering at the Information and Computer Science Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. He received his MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science and certificate of Software Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2000, 2002, and 1999 respectively. Dr. Alshayeb worked as a senior researcher and Software Engineer and managed software projects in the United States and the Middle East. Dr. Alshayeb taught and coordinated industrial training courses. He provided consulting services to major industrial and educational institutes. Dr. Alshayeb is a member of the editorial board of several Software Engineering Journals. Dr. Alshayeb received a number of certificates of excellence and appreciation from many companies. Dr. Alshayeb received Khalifa award for education as “the distinguished University Professor in the Field of Teaching within the Arab World”, in 2016. He also received the “Excellence in Teaching”, “Excellence in Advising” and “Instructional Technology” awards from KFUPM. Dr. He is a certified project manager (PMP). Dr. Alshayeb’s research interests include empirical studies in Software Engineering, secure software, software quality, and software measurement and metrics

Mahmood Niazi

Professor of Software Engineering at the Information and Computer Science Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Saudi Arabia. He has received the MPhil degree from the University of Manchester, U.K., and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He has spent more than a decade with leading technology ï¬پrms and universities as a Process Analyst, a Senior Systems Analyst, a Project Manager, and a Professor. He has participated in and managed several software development projects. Dr. Niazi is an active researcher in the field of empirical software engineering. Dr. Niazi has published over 100 articles He is interested in developing sustainable processes in order to develop systems, which are reliable, secure, and fulfill customer needs. His research interests are evidence-based software engineering, requirements engineering, sustainable, reliable, and secure software engineering processes, global and distributed software engineering, software process improvement, and software engineering project management. Previously Dr. Niazi worked for Keele University UK, National ICT Australia, University of Technology Sydney Australia, University of Sydney Australia, and the University of Manchester UK.