PhD symposium

PhD Symposium

Preliminary Program

The PhD symposium will provide a forum for doctoral students doing research in the area of XP and other agile methodologies. In the symposium students will present and discuss their research objectives, methods, and (preliminary) results. The goal is to provide mutual feedback and guidance in completing the dissertation and on future research directions. The PhD Symposium has the same scope as the main XP 2003 conference.

List of accepted papers

Canessa, Matteo Evaluation of product metrics applied to Agile Methodologies University of  Genova Italy
Dubinsky, Yael Teaching eXtreme Programming in a Project-based Capstone Course Israel Inst.of Technology Israel
Freese, Tammo Software Configuration Management for Test-Driven Development OFFIS Germany
Gallis, Hans Collaboration on Software Tasks Simula Research Lab Norway
Janes, Andrea Measuring the effectiveness of AM using data mining, knowledge discovery and information visualization Free Univ. Bozen Italy
Madsen, Per Unit Testing using Design by Contract and Equivalence Patterns Aalborg University Denmark
Martin, Angela Exploring the XP Customer Role School of Information Management New Zealand
Molokken, Kjetil Software Effort Estimation: Planning XP Guidelines Compared to Research on Traditional Software Development Simula Research Lab. Norway
Regner&Wiesinger Extreme Advertised Bidding University of Linz Austria
Scotto, Marco Evaluation of new Software Engineering Methodologies University of Genova Italy
Seyff, Norbert Mitigating Risks in Mobile System Development University of  Linz Austria
Sillitti, Alberto Collecting Data in Web Service Development University of  Genova Italy
Svensson, Harald A Study on Introducing XP to a Software Development Company The Royal Institute of Technology Sweden
Walter, Bartosz Extending Testability for Automated Refactoring Poznan Univ. of Technology Poland

Rough Schedule

8:30 – 10:30 am

Welcome and Introduction

Participants will briefly present their work in short statement addressing the research question their work is addressing, significant problems and current solutions, the proposed approach, as well as results achieved so far.

10:30 – 11:00 am

Coffee Break

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Team Phase 1

Students build small teams to discuss and exchange their research and prepare team presentations to be shared with other participants.

12:30- 1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 – 3:00 pm

Team Phase 2

Continued discussions in small team.

3:00 – 3:30 pm

Coffee Break

3:30 – 5:30 pm

Team Presentations and Wrap-up

Teams present their discussions, major findings, and lessons learned.

PhD Symposium Organizer
Paul Grünbacher, Johannes Kepler University Linz