We have only begun to understand the experimental nature of
software engineering, the role of empirical studies and
measurement within software engineering, and the mechanisms
needed to apply them successfully. This volume presents the
proceedings of a workshop whose purpose was to gather those
members of the software engineering community who support an
engineering approach based upon empirical studies to provide
an interchange of ideas and paradigms for research.
The papers in the volume are grouped into six parts
corresponding to the workshop sessions: The experimental
paradigm in software engineering; Objectives and context of
measurement/experimentation; Procedures and mechanisms for
measurement/experimentation; Measurement-based modeling;
packaging for reuse/reuse of models; and technology
transfer, teaching and training. Each part opens with a
keynote paper and ends with a discussion summary.
The workshop served as an important event in continuing to
strengthen empirical software engineering as a major
subdiscipline ofsoftware engineering. The deep interactions
and important accomplishments from the meeting documented in
these proceedings have helped identify key issues in moving
software engineering as a whole towards a true engineering
discipline.
