Call For Papers

Please note that the submission closed. We accepted 14 papers.

Motivation and Goals

As software development is a process of both information creation and information gathering, software developers are constantly searching for the right information and person to solve their problems at hand. This workshop will focus specifically on exploring the notion of search as a fundamental activity during software development. The goal of the workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners with special interest on search technology for software developers together. Participants will have broad range of expertise in topics ranging from building software tools and infrastructure, information retrieval, user studies and HCI, benchmarking and evaluation.

We intend the workshop to facilitate interested researchers that share their ideas and experience in understanding: search need and search behavior of developers, how to building tools that address these various needs, and scientific ways to evaluate these tools.

Co-located with ICSE 2009

Date: May 16, 2009. Location: Vancouver, Canada. Links: - [SUITE 2009 Website](https://scg.unibe.ch/wiki/events/suite2009) - [Workshop's Easychair Submission Page](http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?c=.113876;conf=suite09) - [IEEE Proceedings Format Guide](http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/events/icse2009/calls/format/?n=DR) - [ICSE Workshops](http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/events/icse2009/workshops/#Search)

Call for Papers

Please download the PDF version of the CFP here.

Topics

The workshop is concerned with all aspects of the search experience of software developers. Search-driven development involves a broad range of activities and topics: from finding reusable software assets to finding experts within an organization; from using the mighty "grep" to using internet-scale search engines dedicated to software artifacts; from finding matching code fragments based on a simple text query to based on a given unit-test. We are looking forward to exciting and stimulating discussions about all these ideas—and much more—at the workshop!

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Intended Audience

The workshop is intended for:

Each participant is requested to submit a position paper in advance and each participant is requested to read all the submitted material, so that the workshop itself can be devoted to discussion instead of presentations. Submissions will be made electronically to facilitate the rapid exchange of information.

The upper limit for the number of participants is 25 and the participants will be selected on the basis of the submitted contribution.

We actively seek a format which emphasizes fruitful interactions and discussions. This involves brief (5 minute) presentations of position papers; break-up sessions in discussion groups, and plenary meetings to discuss results. We ask that participants present and summarize someone else's position paper, which has proven to be a very pleasant way to stimulate discussion.

Submission Guidelines

Be electronic. Submit your position paper in PDF, using the workshop's EasyChair website, so that we can collect and publish all of the submissions on the web-site. Accepted submissions will be included in the IEEE digital library.

Submissions should be made in the IEEE Proceedings format. Please follow the style guidelines as prescribed by ICSE, also detailed in the IEEE web page.

Be short. Please keep all position papers under four pages.

Be innovative. It is okay to propose a recent idea that still has some unfinished sides to it. It is supposed to be a workshop, not a mini-conference.

Be a rebel. Neglect these guidelines if you feel that your idea needs a special treatment in some way.

 

Important Dates

Organizing Committee

Program Committee