The Software Engineering Group has again been awarded the People's Choice Award at the International Workshop on Software Clones in San Francisco, California. After 2011 this is the second time this award is given to the group.

Jan Harder's work The Limits of Clone Model Stadardization has been elected as the best postion paper by the audience. In the full paper category, Daniela Steidl was awarded along with Software Engineering Group alumni Nils Göde.

For the People's Choice Award the audience votes for the best paper at the workshop with a special focus on the best presentation.

Int the context of the Software-Reengineering lecture on Thursday, December 10th our Guest, Prof. Dr. Mike Godfrey from the University of Waterloo, Canada will give a lecture in english language. We invite everyone interested to attend the lecture.

Abstract:

As Fred Brooks famously noted, change is an essential characteristic of software development, as software systems must respond to evolving requirements, platforms, and other environmental pressures. In this talk, we discuss the concept of software evolution from several perspectives. We examine how it relates to and differs from software maintenance. We discuss insights about software evolution arising from Lehman’s laws of software evolution and the staged lifecycle model of Bennett and Rajlich. We compare software evolution to other kinds of evolution, from science and social sciences, and we examine the forces that shape change. Finally, we discuss the changing nature of software in general as it relates to evolution, and we propose open challenges and future directions for software evolution research. This is joint work with Prof Daniel German of the University of Victoria, and is based on an invited paper for the Frontiers of Software Maintenance track at the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance.

Bio:

Michael W. Godfrey is an Associate Professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo (Canada), where he is also a member of SWAG, the Software Architecture Group. Between 2001 and 2006, he held an Associate Industrial Research Chair in telecommunications software engineering sponsored by Nortel Networks and NSERC. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Toronto (1997) and was previously a faculty member at Cornell University. His main research area is software evolution: understanding how and why software changes over time. His research interests include evidence-based software engineering, software clone analysis, software tool design, reverse engineering, and program comprehension.

The 4th International Workshop on Software Clones (IWSC'2010), themed "Exploring and Restructuring Systems through Clones", will be held on May 8th, 2010, co-located with the 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'2010), Cape Town, South Africa. The goals of the workshop are to bring together researchers and practitioners from around the world to evaluate the current state of research and applications, discuss common problems, discover new opportunities for collaboration, exchange ideas, and envision new areas of research and applications. Along with James R. Cordy, Katsuro Inoue und Stanislaw Jarzabek, Rainer Koschke from our group is organizing the event.

The paper Incremental Clone Detection from Nils Göde and Rainer Koschke from our group has been chosen as the best contribution to 13th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR) and was awarded with the Best Paper Award.

The paper describes the first incremental approach to find source code clones in subsequent versions of a program.