Our paper with Ayse Bener, Pasi Kuvaja and Markku Oivo, “A Quantitative Comparison of Test-first and Test-last Code in an Industrial Project” has been accepted at XP2010 that will be held in Trondheim from the 1st to the 4th of June 2010. I believe the title of the paper clearly indicates what it is all about 
The Student Symposium on Predictive Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE-SS), September 13, 2010 @Timisoara, Romania , Submission Deadline: May 21, 2010.
The main goal of the PROMISE-SS is to provide graduate students with a forum to: present their research and be provided useful feedback from the Symposium’s committee members, and the audience; increase their professional network by having the opportunity to meet more senior researchers and academics conducting research in the student’s field of research; have an opportunity to discuss career options and opportunities with senior researchers and academics; provide an opportunity for students to also attend PROMISE and ICSM; provide an opportunity for students to present their research at an International Forum.
Please check http://promisedata.org/2010/students.shtml for details.
PROMISE 2010, September 12-13, 2010 @Timisoara, Romania , Submission Deadline: May 14, 2010. (Co-located with ICSM’10).
The PROMISE conference provides an annual forum for researchers and practitioners to present and exchange ideas, results, and experiences with predictive models that are applicable to implementation, evaluation, and management of software processes and projects. A key objective of PROMISE is to help establish verifiable and repeatable models that are useful to the software engineering community. Traditionally, PROMISE meetings have primarily focused on effort and defect prediction. PROMISE 2010 is also expanding its scope to include non-traditional predictive models regarding the business, team, human, people, process, and organizational aspects of software engineering. Predictive models related to software development efforts in particular application domains (e.g., healthcare) are encouraged as well.
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I will give a talk with the above title at Scan-Agile’09. Here, you can glimpse what it is (not) about. If you feel that you know -anything at all- about TDD, please share by leaving a comment:
“Despite the popularity of TDD, our knowledge regarding its effects in practice is not only limited, but also contradictory. Therefore, this talk will focus on what we do not know about TDD and possible research directions to reveal the mysteries that lies beneath.”
About a month ago, I have joined the Department of Information Processing Science at the University of Oulu in Finland, as a researcher (though I will participate in teaching activities as well). It feels good to be back in the university! After spending significant number of days for new-comer’s-bureaucracy-to-a-new-country, I am getting ready for the upcoming days of “please fund my research” activities, actual research and paper writing. Oulu seems to be a very peaceful city and just the perfect environment for productive research. I also decided to learn Finnish, so why not start with learning the bus routes!
Our paper with Ayse Tosun and Ayse Bener, “Practical Considerations of Deploying AI in Defect Prediction: A Case Study within the Turkish Telecommunication Industry”, received the best paper award from Predictor Models in Software Engineering Conference (2009). The paper describes our experiences throughout the processes of implementing a measurement program, bug tracing and defect prediction modeling as well as the final outcomes we achieved. This research was carried out in collaboration with the leading wireless operator in Turkey. You may reach the paper from this link.
CASCON 2009, November 2-9, 2009 @Richmond Hill, ON , Submission Deadline: June 1, 2009
CASCON 2009 is the 19th Annual International Conference hosted by the IBM Centers for Advanced Studies. This “Meeting of Minds” provides an exciting forum for exchanging ideas and experiences in the ever-expanding and critical fields of software development and computing. The CASCON 2009 program will include keynote presentations, technical papers, workshops, and a technology showcase. The technical papers program will feature experience reports and original research papers. The technology showcase will feature poster presentations and demonstrations on research in progress. As such, CASCON 2009 will be an excellent venue for presenting original work, exchanging new ideas, sharing results and experiences, and networking with researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government.
UYMS 2009, October 8-10, 2009 @Istanbul, Submission Deadline: May 22, 2009
Ulusal Yazilim Muhendisligi Sempozyumu (UYMS) ilk yapildigi 2003 tarihinden itibaren yazilim muhendisligi arastirma ve gelistirme sonuclarinin tum ilgili paydaslarinin katilimi ile tartisildigi ana platform durumundadir. 2003 yilini takiben her iki yilda bir gerceklestirilen UYMS, arastirma sonuclarinin paylasildigi bir ortam saglamasinin yaninda, ulusal yazilim muhendisligi arastirma alaninin geleceginin sekillendigi bir platform olusturmayi basarmistir. UYMS 09′un temel hedefi oncullerinin basarisini tekrarlayarak, ulusal yazilim muhendisligi arastirma alaninin bugununu belgelemekve gelecegini sekillendirmektir.