ESEC ’91

The third European Software Engineering Conference followsESEC'87 and ESEC'89. This series of conferences was set upby the European societies with the aim of providing aninternational forum for researchers, developersand users ofsoftware engineering technology. The need for a meetingpoint to discuss new results and useful experiences wasclear from the large amount of high-quality Europeansoftware engineering researchin recent years, stimulated,for example, through major European research programmes. The22 papers in these proceedings were selected from 133 paperssubmitted from 26 different countries. They cover a fairlybroad range of themes such as formal methods and practicalexperiences with them, special techniques for real-timesystems, software evolution and re-engineering, softwareengineering environments, and software metrics. Invitedpapers by well-known experts address further importantareas: perspectives on configuration management, softwarefactories, user interfacedesign, computer security, andtechnology transfer.

This volume presents the proceedings of the Third European Software Engineering Conference. Themes include formal methods and practical experiences with them, special techniques for real-time systems, software evolution and re-engineering, software engineering environments, and software metrics.

Software configuration management: Past uses and future challenges.- Architectural design for user interfaces.- The Eureka Software Factory: Concepts and accomplishments.- Integrating structured and formal methods: A visual approach to VDM.- Rational design of distributed applications.- Test data selection from algebraic specifications: Application to an automatic subway module.- Specification in COLD-1 of a CAD package for drawing shadow masks.- ASTRAL: An assertion language for specifying realtime systems.- Execution environment for ELECTRE applications.- An engineering approach to hard real-time system design.- An application of artificial intelligence to prototyping process in performance design for real-time systems.- Dynamically Replaceable Software: A design method.- Software merge: Models and methods for combining changes to programs.- A theory for software design extraction.- SESADA: An environment supporting software specialization.- Metric-driven classification analysis.- A dynamic failure model for predicting the impact that a program location has on the program.- Relation between source code metrics and structure analysis metrics.- Algebraic validation of software metrics.- An algebraic view of inheritance and subtyping in object oriented programming.- Scaling up rule-based software development environments.- Inference-based support for programming in the large.- TICKLE: Object-oriented description and composition services for software engineering environments.- Integrated project support environments, text generation and technical writing.- The Arcs experience.- Panel presentation.- The production of software in the FINSIEL group.- The impact of software engineering researches on industrial practice - a personal view.- Impact of methods on productivity &quality.- Requirements engineering - Getting right from wrong.- A (neat) alphabet of requirements engineering issues.- The scruffy side of requirements engineering.- Expediency and appropriate technology: An agenda for requirements engineering research in the 1990s.- CASE support for the software process.- CASE support for the software process: A research viewpoint.- CASE support for large systems.- CASE seen from both sides of the fence.- CASE support for the software process: Advances and problems.