This paper explores the structure of research papers in software engineering. Using text mining, we study 35,391 software engineering (SE) papers from 34 leading SE venues over the last 25 years. These venues were divided, nearly evenly, between conferences and journals. An important aspect of this analysis is that it is fully automated and repeatable. To achieve that automation, we used topic modeling (with LDA) to mine 10 topics that represent much of the structure of contemporary SE. The 10 topics presented here should not be “set in stone” as the only topics worthy of study in SE. Rather our goal is to report that (a) text mining methods can detect large scale trends within our community; (b) those topic change with time; so (c) it is important to have automatic agents that can update our understanding of our community whenever new data arrives.
Thu 14 Nov
16:00 - 17:40: Papers - Emerging Domains at Cortez 1 Chair(s): Joshua GarciaUniversity of California, Irvine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16:00 - 16:20 Talk | Improving the Decision-Making Process of Self-Adaptive Systems by Accounting for Tactic Volatility Jeffrey PalmerinoRochester Institute of Technology, Qi YuRochester Institute of Technology, Travis Desell University of North Dakota, Daniel KrutzRochester Institute of Technology Pre-print | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16:20 - 16:40 Talk | Learning-Guided Network Fuzzing for Testing Cyber-Physical System Defences Yuqi ChenSingapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Chris PoskittSingapore University of Technology and Design, Jun SunSingapore Management University, Singapore, Sridhar AdepuSingapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Fan ZhangZhejiang University, Zhejiang Lab, and Alibaba-Zhejiang University Joint Institute of Frontier Technologies, China Pre-print File Attached | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16:40 - 17:00 Talk | Uncertainty-wise Test Case Generation and Minimization for Cyber-Physical Systems Man ZhangKristiania University, Shaukat AliSimula Research Lab, Tao YueNanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics & Simula Research Laboratory Link to publication | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17:00 - 17:20 Talk | Finding Trends in Software Research George MathewDepartment of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Amritanshu AgrawalWayfair, Tim MenziesNorth Carolina State University Link to publication | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17:20 - 17:30 Demonstration | XRaSE: Towards Virtually Tangible Software using Augmented Reality Rohit MehraAccenture Labs, India, Vibhu Saujanya SharmaAccenture Labs, Vikrant KaulgudAccenture Labs, India, Sanjay PodderAccenture | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17:30 - 17:40 Demonstration | MuSC: A Tool for Mutation Testing of Ethereum Smart Contract Zixin LiNanjing University, Haoran WuState Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Jiehui XuNanjing University, Xingya WangState Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Lingming ZhangThe University of Texas at Dallas, Zhenyu ChenNanjing University |