Software Engineering - ESEC '93

Ian Somerville is a strategy consultant, executive educator, and social entrepreneur. As managing partner of Somerville & Associates, he engages businesses, governments, and community-based organizations in bringing about breakthrough economic and social results. As a former managing partner with Accenture, he founded and led strategy consulting practices and the firm's global business think tank.

On the decline of classical programming.- Computers are not omnipotent.- Real-time systems: A survey of approaches to formal specification and verification.- Software engineering in business and academia: How wide is the gap?.- Software faults in evolving a large, real-time system: a case study.- The Experience Factory and its relationship to other Improvement Paradigms.- Inconsistency handling in multi-perspective specifications.- Requirements engineering: An integrated view of representation, process, and domain.- Making changes to formal specifications: Requirements and an example.- Formal requirements made practical.- Databases for software engineering environments.- A regression testing database model.- Experiences with a federated environment testbed.- Observations on object management systems and process support in environments.- Software technology for a distributed telecommunication system.- Industrial software development - a case study.- Quantitative approach to software management: the ami method.- Preventative software engineering.- Distributed information systems: An advanced methodology.- Tractable flow analysis for anomaly detection in distributed programs.- A pragmatic task design approach based on a Ward/Mellor real-time structured specification.- Integration of structured analysis and timed statecharts for real-time and concurrency specification.- Language constructs for cooperative systems design.- Scrutiny: A collaborative inspection and review system.- COO: A transaction model to support cooperating software developers Coordination.- An experiment in software retrieval.- Using formal methods to construct a software component library.- Capsule oriented reverse engineering for software reuse.- Automatic replanning of task networks for process modelevolution in EPOS.- Provence: A process visualization and enactment environment.- Process programming with active and passive components.- A formal framework for ASTRAL intra-level proof obligations.- Assertion-based debugging of imperative programs by abstract interpretation.