Welcome to ISERN

International Software Engineering Research Network (ISERN)

ISERN is a community that believes software engineering research needs to be performed in an experimental context. By doing this we will be able to observe and experiment with the technologies in use, understand their weaknesses and strengths,tailor the technologies for the goals and characteristics of particular projects and package them together with empirically gained experience to enhance their reuse potential in future projects.

The founding ISERN members chose the Quality Improvement Paradigm as the reference model to provide a common terminology for their cooperation.

The ISERN community holds annual meetings.

The next meeting will be in Bari (Italy)

As a result of the COVID-19, ICSE has chosen to reschedule for the week of October 5, 2020. Due to the overlap among attendees of ICSE and ESEIW, the ESEIW Steering Committee is exploring other potential dates for rescheduling the 2020 Empirical Software Engineering International Week. We will communicate the updated plan within the next four weeks as we gather more information. While the paper deadline will likely be delayed, we encourage you to continue preparing your submissions while we finalize a new plan.

For the history of meetings check HISTORY.

ISERN Manifesto

As a community, we have begun to recognize that software cannot be produced with a standard technology, but needs to be developed with technologies tailored to the goals and characteristics of particular projects. Consequently, software engineering research needs to be performed in an experimental context that allows us to observe and experiment with the technologies in use, understand their weaknesses and strengths, tailor the technologies for the goals and characteristics of particular projects, and package them together with empirically gained experience to enhance their reuse potential in future projects.

Several software engineering research groups have made the paradigm shift to an experimental, empirical software engineering view. The purpose of this network is to encourage and support the collaboration and exchange of results and personnel among these groups. Specific emphasis is placed on experimentation and empirical studies with development technologies in different environments; the repetition of experiments across environments; and the development and exchange of methods and tools for model building, experimentation, and assessment. The long-term expectation is that such cooperation will enable the abstraction and unification of environment-specific results and knowledge with the objective of generating the basic components of our discipline.

The founding ISERN members chose the Quality Improvement Paradigm as the reference model to provide a common terminology for their cooperation. The QIP is an experimental framework for software development, based on the scientific method and instantiated in the TAME project at the University of Maryland. It views measurement as essential to the capture and effective reuse of software experience, and assumes the process is a variable based on the characteristics and goals of the project and organization. This framework views software engineering as a laboratory science which must be supported by the effective cooperation between academia and industry in order to achieve significant improvements.

ISERN is open to other academic and industrial groups world-wide which are active in experimental software engineering research and are willing to adopt the experimental framework. There is no membership fee. The individual network members are responsible for funding collaboration through existing local or future joint grants.

To see the whole manifesto (Purpose and Focus, Common Research Framework, Activities, Communication, Members, Membership Application, Meetings and Meeting participation, Benefits, Benefits from Network, Benefits to Researchers, Benefits to Companies), check COMPLETE ISERN MANISFESTO.

ISERN Members

The list of ISERN Organizations and their contact person.

Aalto University School of Science and Technology (TKK) (Finland), Caspar Lassenius
Armed Forces University (ESPE) (Ecuador), Efrain R. Fonseca
Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden), Claes Wohlin
Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley (US), Hakan Erdogmus
Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), NN
Clausthal University of Technology (Germany), NN
COPPE/UFRJ (Brazil), Guilherme Travassos
Federal University of Pernambuco (Brasil), Fabio Q.B. da Silva
Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (Germany), Andreas Jedlitschka
Free University of Bolzano-Bozen (Italy), Barbara Russo
ISCAS (China), Qing Wang
IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark), Maria Paasivaara
Lund University (Sweden), Per Runeson
Monash University (Australia), Burak Turhan
Montana State University (US), Clemente Izuireta
Nanjing University (China), He Zhang
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Japan), Kenichi Matsumoto
North Carolina State University (US), Laurie Williams
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway), Jingyu Li
NTT Data Corporation (Japan), Takeshi Hayama
Osaka University (Japan), Shinji Kusumoto
Peking University (China), Minghui Zhou
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Marcos Kalinowski
Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul (Brasil), Rafael Prikladnicki
QAware GmbH (Germany), Marcus Ciolkowski
Queens University (UK), Desmond Greer
Ryerson University (Canada), Ayse Bener
Simula Research Labs (Norway), Magne Jorgensen
SINTEF (Norway), Daniela Cruzes
Software Engineering Research & Practices s.r.l. (SER&Practices) (Italy), Danilo Caivano
Tampere University of Technology (Finland), Davide Taibi
Technical University Munich (Germany), NN
Technical University of Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (Spain), Xavier Franch
Technical University Clausthal (Germany), NN
Univ of Innsbruck (Austria), Michael Felderer
Univ. of Gronningen (The Netherlands), Paris Avgeriou
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain), Sira Vegas
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain), Oscar Pastor
University degli Studi dell’Insubria (Italy), Sandro Morasca
University degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata (Italy), NN
University of Adelaide (Australia), M. Ali Babar
University of Alabahma (US), Jeffrey Carver
University of Bari (Italy), Maria Teresa Baldassarre
University of Calgary (Canada), Guenther Ruhe
University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain), Marcela Genero
University of Hawaii (US), Dan Port
University of Helsinki (Finland), Tomi Männistö
University of Jyväskylä (Finland), Pekka Abrahamsson
University of Maryland-Baltimore County (US), Carolyn Seaman
University of Oslo (Norway), Dag Sjøberg
University of Oulu (Finland), Markku Oivo
University of Stuttgart (Germany), Stefan Wagner
University of Tartu – Institute of Computer Science (Estonia), Dietmar Pfahl
University of Tennessee (US), Audris Mockus
University of Twente (The Netherlands), Maya Daneva
University of Uruguay (ORT) (Uruguay), Martin Solari
University Politecnico di Torino (Italy), Maurizio Morisio
Vienna University of Technology (Austria), Stefan Biffl
VTT Electronics (Finland), Matias Vierimaa
Emeritus (US), Victor Basili
Emeritus (US), Barry Boehm
Emeritus (Italy), Giovanni Cantone
Emeritus (Germany), Dieter Rombach
Emeritus (Australia), Ross Jeffery