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Gary Boetticher, Ph.D.Co-chair

boetticher@cl.uh.edu

Promise 2006

Tim Menzies, Ph.D.Co-chair

tim@menzie.us

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Past, future• 2004:

– Predictive Software Modeling, Chicago, • Jelber Sayyad Shirabad, Tim Lethbridge, Stan Matwin

• 2005: – Promise data repository on-line

• http://promise.site.uottawa.ca/SERepository/

– Promise1, St Louis (with ICSE)• Tim Menzies

& Jelber– IEEE Software Special Issue (Nov’05)

• The Promise of Public Software Engineering Data Repositories

• Guest Editor: Bojan Cukic• 2006:

– Promise2, Philadelphia (with ICSM)• Gary Boetticher & Tim & ICSM

• 2007: – Promise3, Minnesota (with ?ICSE)

• You? & Gary & Tim• ICSE workshop proposals due Oct 6

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Some details• Last thing today: discussion

– Are we living up to the promise of PROMISE?

– Should there be a PROMISE 2007?

• 2006 Proceedings– On CD, at web site– Authors retain copyright

• Sorry, no special issue this year– Submission base needs to be wider– Promise’06 & Promise’07

authors can submit

• A.M. & P.M. coffee:– With ICSM (with thanks)

• Dinner tonight– We’ll buy. Where to go?

• Receipts: see Tim M.

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What makes PROMISE different?

• Put up or shut up– If you conclude X, give others enough

information to check X

• SE experiments – Repeatable, refutable, improvable

• Promise repository– http://promise.site.uottawa.ca/

SERepository/– 2004:

• “It’ll never work”- Lionel Briand,

– 2006• Currently, 2 dozen data sets

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Challenges• Where is the science?

– Currently, no repetition

• Where are the new technologies?– Text mining– Feature subset selection– Bayes nets– SVDDs– Etc

• Where are the landmark results?– Stop sweating the petty things

• E.g. 2% mean accuracy improvements

– Report significant improvements over older work

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Are we getting the big picture?

• We are software engineers. Practitioners• Where are studies on the feedback loop?• What are the impacts of our learned theories on:

– An evolving model?– The organization?

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Invited Speaker

• Predictive Models in Software Engineering: State-of-the-Art, Needs, and Challenges – Lionel Briand Ph.D.

• Carleton University Software Quality Engineering Laboratory,Ottawa, Canada

– Canada Research Chair in Software Quality Engineering,

– co-editor in chief of Empirical Software Engineering: An International Journal

– “I am now a proud Canadian (or should I say Canadien) though I still have a weakness for pungent cheeses. (well, nobody is perfect and I did not have to give it up to become a "canuck".)”