Software Engineering - ESEC-FSE '97 6th European Software Engineering Conference Held Jointly with the 5th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Zürich, Switzerland, September 22-25, 1997. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Software Engineering, FSE '97, held jointly with the 5th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, FSE '97 in Zurich, Switzerland in September 1997.
The volume presents 27 revised full papers selected from a total of 194 submissions. Also included are six invited presentations. All in all the volume is a unique presentation of state-of-the-art research and development in software engineering. The papers are organized in topical sections on software engineering education, software architecture, processes, configuration and process tools, formal analysis, empirical studies, system modelling, testing, program analysis, and decomposition and distribution.

Software Engineering: An unconsummated marriage (extended abstract).- Subtypes for specifications.- Developing multimedia applications with the WinWin Spiral Model.- What we teach sofware engineers in the university: Do we take engineering seriously?.- What we expect from software engineers in the industry.- Security issues in distributed software.- A framework for classifying and comparing architecture description languages.- Applying static analysis to software architectures.- Making design patterns explicit in FACE.- TTM15 — a large multi-site improvement project.- Change management needs integrated process and configuration management.- The design of a next-generation process language.- Software release management.- A contextual approach for process-integrated tools.- Generic fuzzy reasoning nets as a basis for reverse engineering relational database applications.- Providing automated support to deductive analysis of time critical systems.- Verification of liveness properties using compositional reachability analysis.- Model checking graphical user interfaces using abstractions.- Comparing and combining software defect detection techniques: A replicated empirical study.- Experiences with criticality predictions in software development.- Validating the defect detection performance advantage of group designs for software reviews: Report of a laboratory experiment using program code.- Integration of sequential scenarios.- A view-oriented approach to system modelling based on graph transformation.- A design framework for internet-scale event observation and notification.- Refining data flow information using infeasible paths.- Feasible test path selection by principal slicing.- Cryptographic verification of test coverage claims.- A C++ data model supportingreachability analysis and dead code detection.- The use of program profiling for software maintenance with applications to the year 2000 problem.- Reduction and slicing of hierarchical state machines.- A pattern-based application generator for building simulation.- Executable connectors: Towards reusable design elements.- Expressing code mobility in mobile UNITY.- Incremental development for AXE 10.- The tale of two projects—abstract.- Analysis of software architectures in high and low volume electronic systems, industrial experience report.- Towards an adaptation of the Cocomo cost model to the software measurement theory.- Formalizing software architectures: An industrial experience.- Software engineering — old problems, new problems, and unsolved problems.