This paper explores the structure of research papers in software engineering. Using text mining, we study 35,391 software engineering (SE) papers from 34 leading SE venues over the last 25 years. These venues were divided, nearly evenly, between conferences and journals. An important aspect of this analysis is that it is fully automated and repeatable. To achieve that automation, we used topic modeling (with LDA) to mine 10 topics that represent much of the structure of contemporary SE. The 10 topics presented here should not be “set in stone” as the only topics worthy of study in SE. Rather our goal is to report that (a) text mining methods can detect large scale trends within our community; (b) those topic change with time; so (c) it is important to have automatic agents that can update our understanding of our community whenever new data arrives.
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16:00 - 17:40 | Emerging DomainsDemonstrations / Journal First Presentations / Research Papers at Cortez 1 Chair(s): Joshua Garcia University of California, Irvine | ||
16:00 20mTalk | Improving the Decision-Making Process of Self-Adaptive Systems by Accounting for Tactic Volatility Research Papers Jeffrey Palmerino Rochester Institute of Technology, Qi Yu Rochester Institute of Technology, Travis Desell University of North Dakota, Daniel Krutz Rochester Institute of Technology Pre-print | ||
16:20 20mTalk | Learning-Guided Network Fuzzing for Testing Cyber-Physical System Defences Research Papers Yuqi Chen Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Chris Poskitt Singapore University of Technology and Design, Jun Sun Singapore Management University, Singapore, Sridhar Adepu Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Fan Zhang Zhejiang University, Zhejiang Lab, and Alibaba-Zhejiang University Joint Institute of Frontier Technologies, China DOI Pre-print File Attached | ||
16:40 20mTalk | Uncertainty-wise Test Case Generation and Minimization for Cyber-Physical Systems Journal First Presentations Man Zhang Kristiania University, Shaukat Ali Simula Research Lab, Tao Yue Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics & Simula Research Laboratory Link to publication | ||
17:00 20mTalk | Finding Trends in Software Research Journal First Presentations George Mathew Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Amritanshu Agrawal Wayfair, Tim Menzies North Carolina State University Link to publication | ||
17:20 10mDemonstration | XRaSE: Towards Virtually Tangible Software using Augmented Reality Demonstrations Rohit Mehra Accenture Labs, India, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma Accenture Labs, Vikrant Kaulgud Accenture Labs, India, Sanjay Podder Accenture | ||
17:30 10mDemonstration | MuSC: A Tool for Mutation Testing of Ethereum Smart Contract Demonstrations Zixin Li Nanjing University, Haoran Wu State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Jiehui Xu Nanjing University, Xingya Wang State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Lingming Zhang The University of Texas at Dallas, Zhenyu Chen Nanjing University | ||