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Keynotes
We are proud to announce
three superb keynote speakers for RE'06:
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Keynote 1:
End Users Who Meet Their Own
Requirements
Mary Beth Rosson (Pennsylvania State University,
USA)
Wednesday, September 13, 9:00
Thursday, September 14, 9:00
Slides of the
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Abstract:
Over the past 25 years, user interface designers
and usability engineers have studied and refined
human-computer interaction techniques with the goal
of improving people's productivity and experience.
One result is an increasing number of tools
designed to help end users build or customize
software solutions for a variety of everyday
problems -- from email filters, to spreadsheet
simulations, to interactive web applications.
How far can end users go in meeting their own
software requirements? Given the right tools,
people and organizations may be able to rapidly
develop solutions to a huge number of
context-specific computing requirements,
eliminating the wait for IT professionals to
analyze and engineer a solution. But is this a good
thing? End-user programmers are not trained in
software engineering or computing paradigms. They
have little intrinsic motivation to test their
constructions for even basic concerns like
correctness or safety. In this talk I argue that
the transformation of end users into software
developers is well underway and discuss the
prospects for maximizing the benefits to society
while addressing the risks.
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Biography:
Mary Beth Rosson is Professor
of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at The
Pennsylvania State University. She received a PhD
in experimental psychology in 1982 from the
University of Texas. Prior to joining Penn State's
College of IST in 2003, she was a professor of
computer science at Virginia Tech for 10 years, and
a research staff member and manager at IBM's T. J.
Watson Research Center for 11 years. Rosson was
among the earliest researchers to study the
psychological issues associated with the
object-oriented paradigm, and spent many years
developing and evaluating object-oriented tools and
training for professional programmers. One of her
abiding interests has been the interplay between
the concerns of human-computer interaction and
software engineering. Recently she has been
studying the tools and practices of end-user
developers in educational and general business
contexts.
For many years, Rosson has been an active
participant in both the software engineering and
the human-computer interaction research
communities. She served as the Conference Chair for
OOPSLA 2000 and is currently Conference Chair for
CHI 2007. She is author of Usability Engineering:
Scenario-Based Development of Human-Computer
Interaction (Morgan Kaufmann, 2002) as well as
numerous articles, book chapters, and
tutorials.
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Keynote 2:
Testing to Improve Requirements - Mission
Impossible?
Dorothy Graham (Grove Consulting, UK)
Thursday, September 14, 9:00
Slides of the
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Abstract:
How is it possible that testing could help to make
better requirements? If this sounds like "Mission
Impossible" to you, you may be suffering under some
myths or misconceptions about the relationship
between requirements and testing. Requirements
engineers, developers and testers all have a
different "mindset" and this can result in
mis-understandings about the relationship between
them. Whether you use a traditional life cycle
approach or a very iterative approach to
development, both good requirements specifications
and good testing practices are critical to
success.
In this presentation we will outline the
characteristics of a good relationship between
requirements engineering and software testing. We
will then look at a number of myths or
misconceptions about this relationship, for example
that testing comes after a system has been
developed, that testers use requirements but not
vice versa, that you can't test without
requirements, that testers don't actually need
requirements (a tester's misconception) and
others.
We will conclude with some tips for how to achieve
better requirements through a better relationship
with testing. It's not mission impossible - it's
mission critical. Good requirements engineering
produces better tests, and good test analysis
produces better requirements.
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Biography:
Dorothy Graham is the founder of
Grove Consultants, which
provides advice, training and inspiration in
software testing, test automation and
Inspection.
Dot is co-author of three books: "Software
Inspection" (with Tom Gilb), "Software Test
Automation" (with Mark Fewster) and "Software
Testing Foundation (ISTQB)" (with Rex Black, Isabel
Evans and Erik Van Veenendaal). Her article on
requirements and testing was published in IEEE
Software in 2002.
She was a founder member of the UK ISEB Software
Testing Board, and is on the editorial board of the
Better Software magazine. She is a recipient of the
European Excellence Award in Software Testing.
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Keynote 3:
Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering, Part
II
John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto, Canada
and Università di Trento, Italy)
Friday, September 15, 14:00
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Abstract:
The last fifteen years have seen the rise of a new
phase in software development which is concerned
with the acquisition, modelling and analysis of
stakeholder purposes ("goals") in order to derive
functional and non-functional requirements. The
history of ideas and research results for this new
phase was reviewed in a RE'04 keynote presentation
by Axel van Lamsweerde. We revisit the topic and
sketch on-going research on a number of fronts.
Specifically, we discuss an agent-oriented software
development methodology -- called Tropos -- that is
founded on the concepts of goal, actor as well as
inter-actor dependencies. We also show how goal
models that characterize a space of possible
solutions for meeting stakeholder goals can be used
as a basis for designing high variability software.
In addition, we report on early work to extend
database design techniques to support the
generation of a database conceptual schema from
stakeholder goals. The research reported is the
result of collaborations with colleagues at the
Universities of Toronto and Trento.
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Biography:
John Mylopoulos earned a PhD
degree from Princeton 1970, the year he joined the
faculty of the University of Toronto. His research
interests include requirements engineering,
conceptual modeling, data semantics and knowledge
management. Mylopoulos is a co-recipient of the
best-paper award of the 1994 International
Conference on Software Engineering and an elected
fellow of the American Association for AI (AAAI).
He is currently serving as co-editor of the
Requirements Engineering Journal and served as
program chair of the International IEEE Symposium
on Requirements Engineering (1997).
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