Software Engineering - ESEC ’93

Ian Somerville is a strategy consultant, executive educator, and social entrepreneur. As managing partner of Somerville & Associates, he engages businesses, governments, and community-based organizations in bringing about breakthrough economic and social results. As a former managing partner with Accenture, he founded and led strategy consulting practices and the firm's global business think tank.

This volume contains the proceedings of the fourth EuropeanSoftware Engineering Conference. It contains 6 invitedpapers and 27 contributed papers selected from more than 135submissions.The volume has a mixtureof themes. Some, such as softwareengineering and computer supported collaborative work, areforward-looking and anticipate future developments; others,such as systems engineering, are more concerned with reportsof practical industrial applications. Some topics, such assoftware reuse, reflect the fact that some of the concernsfirst raised in 1969 when software engineering was bornremain unsolved problems.The contributed papers are organized under the followingheadings: requirements specification, environments, systemsengineering, distributed software engineering, real-timesystems, software engineering and computer supportedcollaborative work, software reuse, software process, andformal aspects of software engineering.

On the decline of classical programming.- Computers are not omnipotent.- Real-time systems: A survey of approaches to formal specification and verification.- Software engineering in business and academia: How wide is the gap?.- Software faults in evolving a large, real-time system: a case study.- The Experience Factory and its relationship to other Improvement Paradigms.- Inconsistency handling in multi-perspective specifications.- Requirements engineering: An integrated view of representation, process, and domain.- Making changes to formal specifications: Requirements and an example.- Formal requirements made practical.- Databases for software engineering environments.- A regression testing database model.- Experiences with a federated environment testbed.- Observations on object management systems and process support in environments.- Software technology for a distributed telecommunication system.- Industrial software development - a case study.- Quantitative approach to software management: the ami method.- Preventative software engineering.- Distributed information systems: An advanced methodology.- Tractable flow analysis for anomaly detection in distributed programs.- A pragmatic task design approach based on a Ward/Mellor real-time structured specification.- Integration of structured analysis and timed statecharts for real-time and concurrency specification.- Language constructs for cooperative systems design.- Scrutiny: A collaborative inspection and review system.- COO: A transaction model to support cooperating software developers Coordination.- An experiment in software retrieval.- Using formal methods to construct a software component library.- Capsule oriented reverse engineering for software reuse.- Automatic replanning of task networks for process modelevolution in EPOS.- Provence: A process visualization and enactment environment.- Process programming with active and passive components.- A formal framework for ASTRAL intra-level proof obligations.- Assertion-based debugging of imperative programs by abstract interpretation.