TOPI 2011 - 1st Workshop on Developing Tools as Plug-ins

TOPI 2011 1st Workshop on Developing Tools as Plug-ins
Saturday May 28, 2011

Keynote Speaker

		Tom Ball
		MS Research
		Tom Ball is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research where he manages the Software Reliability Research Group. Tom received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993, was with Bell Labs from 1993-1999, and has been at Microsoft Research since 1999. He is one of the originators of the SLAM project, a software model checking engine for C that forms the basis of the Static Driver Verifier tool. Tom's interests range from program analysis, model checking, testing and automated theorem proving to the problems of defining and measuring software quality. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/tball/

Date	Saturday, May 28th
Venue	South Pacific 3
Time	8.30 - 5.00

Overview

Our knowledge as to how to solve software engineering problems is increasingly being encapsulated in tools. These tools are at their strongest when they operate in a pre-existing development environment that can provide integration with existing elements such as compilers, debuggers, profilers and visualizers. Some also exist beyond development time and work with the runtime. A further challenge is to develop tools that can span different – and future - development environments and runtimes. This workshop should of interest to all those interested in developing tools as plug-ins for IDEs, runtimes and browsers. We will examine the categories of problems that are best solved in this way, and look at the future challenges. Attendees should have a working knowledge of an IDE such as Visual Studio 2010, Eclipse or MonoDevelop, and experience or interest in tool development.

Goals

The workshop wants to address the following themes:

identify recent successful tools as plug-ins
categorize the characteristics of good plug-ins
understand interoperability requirements to making tools available across platforms
list which tools lend themselves best to the plug- in approach
specify the medium and long term challenges of tools as plug-ins

Thus we are more concerned in this workshop with understanding the characteristics and creation of tools as plug-ins, than of the tools themselves.

Areas

Computer supported cooperative work
Empirical software engineering
Engineering secure software
Mining software repositories
Programming languages and design
Software dependability, safety, and reliability
Software engineering education
Software processes
Software requirements engineering
Software testing and analysis
Software verification
Static analysis and bug-finding

Organizers

		Judith Bishop
		Microsoft Research
		Judith Bishop has extensive experience in organizing conferences and summer schools and has been on many PCs for workshops and symposiums, notably ICSE 2008, ESEC/FSE 2009 and TOOLS 2010. She was Co-General Chair for ICSE 2010 and is PC Chair for TOOLS 2011.

		Karin Breitman
		PUC-Rio
		Karin Breitman served as Events Director on the BOD of the Brazilian Computer Society from 2005 to 2008, where she was responsible for overlooking over 30 events/year. She was PC-Chair of several events, notably ICFEM'09, ICECCS'08, SEW'09. She was co- general chair of ICFEM'09 and ECBS-LARC 2010. She belongs to the PC of ICFEM'10, ISOLA'10.

		David Notkin
		University of Washington
		My educational and research interests are in software engineering, with a particular focus in software evolution: understanding why software is so hard and expensive to change, and in turn reducing those difficulties and costs.

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