CFP SoHeal 2018: 1st International Workshop on Software Health @ ICSE 2018
*Deadline extended until February 12* due to several requests. You can submit a full
paper or extended abstract.
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INTRODUCTION
Factors impacting software health can vary depending on the viewpoint of the involved
stakeholders: process factors, technical factors concerning the source code and related
software artefacts, social factors concerning the communities of software contributors and
users, and business factors concerning commercial aspects of the software product. Because
of this variety, there is no clear definition of what constitutes software health, since
it encompasses many different development and evolution attributes, including success,
longevity, growth, resilience, survival, diversity, sustainability, etc.
As can be witnessed by recent initiatives such as the Linux Foundation’s CHAOSS project on
community health analytics, the research community and the industry have realized the need
for a socio-technical perspective concerning software health. Such a perspective is
challenging, due to the volatile storage of information regarding social relations,
conflicts and interactions. There is a need to find better methods, techniques and tools
to monitor software health, as well as to predict and take corrective measures when health
implications arise. Finally, a project's health should also consider the health of the
ecosystem in which the project participates to obtain a holistic view of software health.
Thus, a better understanding is needed of how the health metrics, indicators and their
operationalization can be aggregated from project-level to ecosystem level.
CALL FOR PAPERS
SoHeal aims to enable and promote collaboration between academia and industry, unifying
the views on software health of researchers and practitioners. The workshop's goals
are to: (1) raise awareness of practitioners' problems with software health; (2)
familiarize practitioners with the progress made by academia; and (3) connect the two
communities to further advance the body of knowledge and state of the practice on software
health.
TOPICS of INTEREST (non-exclusive)
- social, technical and business aspects of software health
- software health at the individual, team or community level
- software health at the software project or ecosystem level
- open source vs. industrial experiences with software health
- software health definition and modelling
- software health measurement and assessment
- qualitative or quantitative studies about software health
- prediction or recommendation models to predict health issues or improve health
- software health tools and dashboards (e.g. for analytics and visualization)
TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS
We invite two types of contributions: full position papers of 6 to 8 pages (including
figures, tables and references), or extended abstracts of 1 to 2 pages reporting on
practitioner's or industrial experience. Submissions must follow the ACM formatting
instructions and should be submitted using the EasyChair link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=soheal2018
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: February 12, 2018
Notification: March 5, 2018
Camera Ready: March 15, 2018
Workshop: Sunday, May 27, 2018 (Gothenburg, Sweden)