Welcome from the General Chair and Program Chair at the 8th International Symposium on Software and Systems Traceability

1. 8 T H I N T E R N AT I O N A L S Y M P O S I U M O N
S O F T WA R E A N D S Y S T E M
T R A C E A B I L I T Y
M AY 1 7 , 2 0 1 5
C O - L O C AT E D W I T H I C S E 2 0 1 5
S P O N S O R E D B Y

2. Event
Organization

3. 8 T H I N T E R N AT I O N A L S Y M P O S I U M O N
S O F T WA R E A N D S Y S T E M
T R A C E A B I L I T Y
former International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of
Software Engineering, TEFSE
Past editions:
TEFSE 2013, May 19, 2013, San Francisco, California, USA
TEFSE 2011, May 23, 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
TEFSE 2009, May 18, 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
TEFSE 2007, Grand Challenges of Traceability: GCT
TEFSE 2005, November 8, 2005, Long Beach, CA
TEFSE 2003, October 7, 2003, Montreal, Canada
TEFSE 2002, September 28th, 2002, Edinburgh, U.K.

4. C O N T E S T C O - C H A I R
D E N Y S P O S H Y VA N Y K ,
C O L L E G E O F W I L L I A M A N D M A RY, U S A
P R O G R A M C H A I R
R O C C O O L I V E T O
U N I V E R S I T Y O F M O L I S E , I TA LY
P R O C E E D I N G S C H A I R
A N N I B A L E PA N I C H E L L A
T U D E L F T, T H E N E T H E R L A N D S
C O N T E S T C O - C H A I R
B O G D A N D I T
B O I S E S TAT E U N I V E R S I T Y, U S A
W E B A N D S O C I A L M E D I A C H A I R
PAT R I C K R E M P E L
T E C H N I S C H E U N I V E R S I TÄT I L M E N A U ,
G E R M A N Y
O R G A N I Z I N G C O M M I T T E E : T H A N K S !

5. S T U D E N T S C H O L A R S H I P S
AVA I L A B L E F O R AT T E N D I N G
S S T

6. Sponsors
S P O N S O R S : T H A N K S !

7. Technical
Program

8. Call For Papers
Research papers Position papers Contest papers
Mature traceability
solutions
Early research
achievements
Open
competition
Deadline was Feb. 27th, 2015
Notification sent on March 12th, 2015

9. 17papers
14 research papers
3 position papers
Feb. 28th, 2015
the day after the deadline

10. Andrea De Lucia, Remo Ferrari, Jane Cleland-
Huang, Alex Dekhtyar, Alexander Egyed, Olly Gotel,
Mark Grechanik, John Grundy, Paul Grünbacher, Jin
Guo, Jane Huffman Hayes, Huzefa Kagdi, Tobias
Kuschke, Jonathan Maletic, Anas “Nash” Mahmoud,
Andrian Marcus, Mehdi Mirakhorli, Nan Niu, Tien N.
Nguyen, Annibale Panichella, Denys Poshyvanyk,
Patrick Rempel,Technical University of Ilmenau,
Matthias Riebisch, Bonita Sharif, Andy Zaidman,
Andrea Zisman
Thanks to the 26 pc members

12. What papers talk about…

13. Program: Technical sessions
11.00am - 12.30pm - Traceability Identification and Recovery
Chair: Jane Cleland-Huang
02.00pm - 03.30pm - Traceability Applications
Chair: Annibale Panichella
04.00pm - 05.00pm - Tracelab and Challenges Session
Chair: Nan Niu
09.15am - 10.30am - Keynote by Lionel Briand

14. Sessionformat…
12mins presentation
+3 mins for questions
30mins discussion
guided by one/two provocative
statements by each speaker

15. Special issue on
Software and Systems Traceability
Two kinds of submissions:
Research paper with strong
empirical components
Experience reports reviewing
traceability practices
Guest editors:
Rocco Oliveto, Patrick Mader and
Andrian Marcus
EMSE 2013 Impact Factor: 1.640
Submission deadline: November 1st, 2015

16. Let’s start!

17. Traceability Beyond Source Code:
An Elusive Target?
Professor and FNR PEARL chair in software
verification and validation at the SnT centre for
Security, Reliability, and Trust, University of
Luxembourg
He is the coeditor-in-chief of Empirical Software
Engineering (Springer)
He was elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow for his
work on the testing of object-oriented systems.
He was recently granted the IEEE Computer Society
Harlan Mills award and the IEEE Reliability Society
engineer-of-the-year award for his work on model-
based verification and testing.