Interesting papers

Software engineering papers

These papers are about some practical software engineering practices over the past 15 years -- still applicable today.

Panel session reports:

• SPLASH 2022 Panel: "Dimensions of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" [coauthored with Steve Fraser] (PDF)
• XP 2021 Panel: "The Stories We Tell: Experience, Research, or Patterns?" [coauthored with Steve Fraser] (PDF)
• XP 2021 Panel: "The Future of Software Engineering" [coauthored with Steve Fraser] (PDF)
• "Strategies for ‘Socially Distant’ University-Company Collaborations" [coauthored with Steve Fraser] (PDF) - [panel session report from the ICSE 2021 Workshop on Software Engineering Research and Industrial Practice]
• Panel Session report: "Engineering for Chaos: Lessons Learned from COVID-19" [coauthored with Steve Fraser] (PDF)
• Panel Session report: "COVID-19's Influence on the Future of Agile" [coauthored with Steve Fraser] (PDF)
• Panel Session report: "XP 2019 Panel: Security and Privacy" [coauthored with Steven Fraser] (PDF)
• Panel Session report: "XP 2019 Panel: Agile Manifesto – Impacts on Culture, Education, and Software" [coauthored with Steven Fraser] (PDF)
• Panel Session report: "XP 2019 Panel: Business Agility" [coauthored with Steven Fraser] (PDF)
• Panel Session report: "XP 2019 Panel: Agile, the Next 20 Years" [coauthored with Steven Fraser] (PDF)
• Panel Session report: "Agile Culture: A Panels Report from XP 2017" [coauthored with Steven Fraser] (PDF)
• Panel Session report: "No Silver Bullet Reloaded: Report on XP 2017 Panel Session" [coauthored with Steven Fraser] (PDF)
• Software Tools Research: SPLASH Panel Discussion [coauthored with Steven Fraser] - a report on a panel at the SPLASH 2012 conference (IEEE Software magazine, Mar-Apr 2013) (PDF)
• No Silver Bullet: Software Engineering Reloaded [coauthored with Steven Fraser] - a report on a panel at the OOPSLA 2007 conference featuring Fred Brooks, David Parnas, and a discussion of Brooks' famous "No Silver Bullet" paper (IEEE Software magazine, Jan-Feb 2008) (PDF)

Other papers:

• Report on the Future of Conferences [coauthored with Steven Fraser] - 2023 report on virtual and hybrid conferences: PDF
• Exploring the Dimensions of University-Company Collaborations [coauthored with Steven Fraser] - workshop paper for ICSE 2021 SER&IP workshop
  • Preprint of the paper: PDF
  • 10 minute video presentation: YouTube video
• Innovation Through Collaboration [coauthored with Steven Fraser] - workshop paper for ICSE 2017 SER&IP workshop (PDF) - this paper presents a use case model for the "business process" of setting up and executing collaborations
  • Short presentation about the use case model: PDF
• Strategies for Collaboration [coauthored with Steven Fraser] - workshop paper for ICSE 2016 SER&IP workshop (PDF) - this paper discusses some of the practical issues of setting up industry-academic research collaborations
• Building and Applying Requirements Models [coauthored with Indira Kuruganti] - a paper on requirements modeling experiences that appeared in the Fall 2003 issue of Bell Labs Technical Journal (Oct. 2003) (PDF)
• An Architecture for Collaboration: a Case Study - a workshop paper by Heather Oppenheimer and Dennis Mancl: presented at ICSE 2001 (PDF)
  • (4th ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering over the Internet, May 13, 2001 -- see http://sem.calgary.ca/~maurer/icse2001ws/ICSE2001WS.html for more information)
• Understanding and Addressing the Essential Costs of Evolving Systems - a paper on "discovery costs" that appeared in the Spring 2000 issue of Bell Labs Technical Journal [coauthored with Joe Davison and Bill Opdyke] (PDF)
• Refactoring for Software Migration - a paper on some experiences using Refactoring techniques on a Wireless project in 2000 - this paper appeared in IEEE Communications Magazine, Oct. 2001 (HTML)
• Educators and consultants as mentors - a short paper presented at the OOPSLA 2000 Educators Symposium