[fg-arc] Call for Papers - Workshops co-located with EASE 2024 - Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering

[Giulia SELLITTO]

Call for Papers

Workshops co-located with the 28th International Conference on Evaluation
and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2024)
June 21st, 2024
University of Salerno, Italy
https://conf.researchr.org/track/ease-2024/ease-2024-workshops



EASE is an internationally leading venue for academics and practitioners to
present and discuss their research on evidence-based software engineering,
and its implications for software practice. EASE is ranked as A conference
in CORE; the 28th edition will take place in Salerno, Italy, from June 18th
to 21st.

Following the tradition of previous conferences, EASE 2024 will host a
number of workshops, during the day after the main conference (Friday, June
21st). The workshops will provide a collaborative forum to exchange recent
and/or preliminary results, to conduct intensive discussions on a
particular topic, or to coordinate efforts between representatives of a
technical community. They are intended as a forum for lively discussions of
innovative ideas, recent progress, or practical experience on
evidence-based software engineering.

This year, five workshops are co-located with EASE, all sharing the same
important dates, which can be found at the end of this message.



WORKSHOPS DETAILS



4th International Workshop on Software Security: Challenges, Opportunities,
and Lessons Learned (Secure Software ’24)

Organized by: Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad Alshayeb, and Mahmood Niazi

Description: Over the last decade, many organizations have focused on
software security because modern applications typically operate in a
hostile network-based environment. Traditionally, organizations have tried
to address security concerns by finding and fixing security vulnerabilities
once the software development cycle is completed. Software needs to be
secured against any unauthorized users, and this can be achieved by
incorporating security mechanisms into different phases of the software
development lifecycle. However, incorporating security practices and
processes into different software development life cycle phases remains a
challenge. Software security is evolving due to increasing failure rates of
software projects, economic downturn, software development without security
in mind, globalization, and outsourcing. The empirical software engineering
researchers need new approaches, models, and tools for addressing various
emerging software security challenges in this modern age. There is a need
for empirical evidence to support different new approaches in software
security research and practice. This will provide researchers with
innovative knowledge on developing different software security processes
and practices. This will also help improve existing software security
approaches and processes to build secure software effectively. This
workshop will bring together and advance the work undertaken on software
security. The outcome of this workshop will provide researchers and
practitioners with a firm basis on which to develop different practices/
tools/ techniques based on an understanding of how and where they fit into
secure software development and research. New practices/ tools/ techniques
could then be developed targeting the secure software engineering community.



5th International DevOps Quality Management (DevOps-QM)

Organized by: Arif Khan, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, and Shahid Hussain

Description: DevOps is a framework that integrates both the development and
operation activities and bridges the gap between them. DevOps practices are
getting significant research and industrial attention because of its
attributes, i.e., continuous value delivery, faster time to market,
frequent accommodation of changes, and superior quality. The 2017 software
trends highlighted that DevOps would become a well-established and accepted
approach across the software industry. However, quality management plays a
significant role between the development and operation silos. In DevOps,
quality assurance works as a bridge between all the disciplines from
customers and business to development and operation. For instance,
exploring the quality management issues in DevOps becomes an urgent need
for software companies striving to adopt DevOps practices. This workshop
aims to provide a venue for advances in state of the art in DevOps quality
management approaches, practices, and tools. To this end, the workshop
brings together experts from academia and industry, working in the diverse
areas of quality assurance, testing, performance engineering, agile
software engineering, and model-based development to identify, define, and
disseminate novel quality-aware approaches to DevOps.



Security Testing for Complex Software Systems (SECUTE)

Organized by: Emanuele Iannone, Valeria Pontillo, Coen De Roover, and
Riccardo Scandariato

Description: Modern software systems have increasing complexity and risk
falling into security issues if such systems are not developed with a
proper security mindset. Security testing is one recommended activity to
employ for ensuring highly secure systems. However, there is still a need
for new empirically grounded methods, techniques, and investigations that
tackle the challenges of new application domains and facilitate developers’
adoption of security testing practices and tools. This workshop aims to
foster a community where researchers and practitioners can discuss novel
ideas and share fresh insights on the security testing of software systems.
The purpose is to channel attention to new application domains adopting
unconventional and more complex architectures, like AI-based,
cyber-physical, Virtual Reality, or IoT systems.



Empirical Studies for Quantum Software Engineering (E-QSE)

Organized by: Fabiano Pecorelli, Maria Teresa Baldassarre, and Manuel A.
Serrano

Description: Quantum Programming has been increasingly recognized in recent
years, with a growing consensus among researchers and practitioners that
this emerging technology has the potential to significantly reshape the
landscape of computation. The workshop’s objective is to foster a community
where both researchers and practitioners can engage in discussions about
novel ideas and share fresh insights on Empirical Studies in Quantum
Software Engineering, with the ultimate goal of addressing previously
unsolved problems.



Workshop on evaLuation and assEssment in softwARe eNgineers’ Education and
tRaining (LEARNER)

Organized by: Beatriz Marin, Tanja E. J. Vos, Anna Rita Fasolino, Felix
Cammaerts, and Mehrdad Saadatmand

Description: Software engineers need to acquire a rich set of soft and hard
skills in order to be able to deliver high-quality software systems that
meet stakeholders’ needs. Such a skill set can be acquired through
different educational and training approaches: from formal education in
schools and universities to workplace training and capstone projects, from
offline classes to those online, from coding clubs to boot camps and
contests, up to the use of any resource or technology for the education and
training of present and future software engineers. These educational and
training approaches need to be assessed by educators or trainers. To do so,
it is needed to compare the desired or expected learning outcomes with the
actual results. LEARNER 2024 is a workshop interested in any aspect
concerning the evaluation and assessment of educational and training
approaches for present and future software engineers. Contributions aiming
to evaluate and assess the skills above-mentioned, as well as engagement
and retention in the education and training of software engineers, are also
of interest to the workshop.



IMPORTANT DATES (Same for all the five workshops)

Submission deadline: March 8th, 2024
Notification: April 12th, 2024
Camera ready deadline: April 26th, 2024
Early registration deadline: May 5th, 2024



WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS

Davide Di Ruscio, University of L'Aquila (Italy)
Sira Vegas, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)



ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

For further information please visit EASE website (
https://conf.researchr.org/track/ease-2024/ease-2024-workshops)
and follow our X account (https://twitter.com/ConfEASE)
#EASE2024
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