Building an Experience Base for Software Engineering: A Report on the First CeBASE eWorkshop

New information is obtained by research and disseminated by papers in conferences and journals. The synthesis of knowledge depends upon social discourse among the experts in a given domain to discuss the impact of this new information. Meetings among such experts are, however, expensive and time consuming. In this paper we discuss the organization of CeBASE, a center whose goal is the collection and dissemination of empirically -based software engineering knowledge, and the concept of the online workshop or eWorkshop as a way to use the Internet to minimize the needs of face-to-face meetings. We discuss the design of our eWorkshop and give the results of one eWorkshop that discussed the impact of defect reduction strategies. 1 Building an Experience Base for Software Engineering Software development is a people- and knowledge-intensive activity; it is a rapidly changing field, and although it is slowly maturing, many activities are still ad hoc and depend upon personal experiences. In ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: PROFES
• Authors: Victor R. Basili
• Keywords: -based Software Engineering, PROFES 2001, Software Development, Software Engineering