Technical Briefings

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The ICSE 2016 Technical Briefings Track offers conference attendees the opportunity to gain new insight, knowledge and skills in a broad range of software engineering areas. The track will feature 13 technical briefings on Tuesday, May 17 for attendees to choose from. Each 90-minute briefing is led by experts in the field on emerging areas of software engineering. A briefing typically consists of an overview of the problem and current approaches, and then describes emerging research results and future research directions. Questions from attendees are encouraged.

Attendees must register for the Technical Briefing Track and can attend all or any part of any of the briefings throughout the day.

Do you want to gain valuable technical knowledge that you can use today?

Do you want your students to get an overview of the state-of-the-art in emerging areas?

Do you want to remain competitive in your field?

Register yourself and/or your students today for the Technical Briefings!

	Track 1	Track 2	Track 3	Track 4
09.00 - 10.30 AM	"How not to do it": Anti-patterns for Data Science in Software Engineering Tim Menzies	Improving and Balancing Software Qualities Barry Boehm	Control Theory for Software Engineering Antonio Filieri Martina Maggio	Software Engineering for Molecular Programming Robyn Lutz Jack Lutz
10.30 - 11.00 AM	BREAK
11.00 - 12.30 PM	Analyzing Software Engineering Experiments: Everything You Always Wanted to Know but Were Afraid to Ask Natalia Juristo Sira Vegas	Software Release Planning Xavier Franch Guenther Ruhe	Logic-based Learning in Software Engineering Dalal Alrajeh Alessandra Russo Sebastian Uchitel Jeff Kramer
12.30 - 02.00 PM	LUNCH
02.00 - 03.30 PM	Using Docker Containers to Improve Reproducibility in Software Engineering Research Jürgen Cito Harald C. Gall	Risk Assessment in Open Source Systems Xavier Franch Angelo Susi	Refactoring Verification: Accuracy, Efficiency and Scalability through Human-Machine Collaboration Suraj Kothari Ahmed Tamrawi Jon Mathews
03.30 - 04.00 PM	BREAK
04.00 - 05.30 PM	Software Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities Latifa Guerrouj Olga Baysal David Lo Foutse Khomh	The Use of Text Retrieval and Natural Language Processing in Software Engineering Sonia Haiduc Venera Arnaoudova Andrian Marcus Giuliano Antoniol	Advances in Unit Testing: Theory and Practice Tao Xie Nikolai Tillmann Pratap Lakshman

These 13 Technical briefings were selected out of 31 submissions by a Program Committee composed of:

• Antonia Bertolino, ISTI-CNR, Italy
• Myra B. Cohen, The University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• Richard A. Kemmerer, The University of California, Santa Barbara
• Jeff Kramer, Imperial College London
• Lee Osterweil, The University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Lori L. Pollock, The University of Delaware
• Barbara G. Ryder, Virginia Tech
• Axel van Lamsweerde, Université catholique de Louvain