Thanks to many supporters and participants, today we successfully held the seminar on IT Management and Software Quality together with FraunhoferIESE and IPA/SEC! After the seminar, we had a round table for sharing experiences and seeking future researches and collaborations, and a party! At the round table and the party, we got some ideas such as forming a user-group of GQM/GQM+Strategies in Japan and having an workshop for sharing research activities internationally.

早稲田＆Fraunfoher IESE & IPA/SEC 共催セミナー「データに裏付けられたIT経営とソフトウェア品質」、本日無事開催できました。IESEやIPA/SECをはじめ多くの方々に支えられて盛況な会となりましたことに御礼申し上げます。早稲田スタッフの頑張りも見事でした。今回のセミナーが、今後のゴール指向の考え方やソフトウェア品質への取り組み、測定のアプローチ、そしてGQM+Strategies導入のヒント、きっかけとなれば幸いです。

セミナー後には関係者にてラウンドテーブル、さらには懇親会を持ちまして、今後の活動やコラボレーションに繋がる活発な議論と交流をさせていただきました。有り難うございました。懇親会のラストシーンでは皆さんとても笑顔で、大変嬉しく思います。私自身、とても刺激的で楽しい機会となりました。これを次に繋げたいと思います。
各個別の研究連携に加え、GQM/GQM+Strategies関係のユーザグループ結成、さらには、事例や研究成果を共有する国際ワークショップ開催といったアイディアもあがっています。一度にあれもこれもというわけにはいきませんが、少しずつでも確実に前進して社会やコミュニティへの貢献を深めてまいりたいと思います。

Naohiko Tsuda, Masaki Takada, Hironori Washizaki, Yoshiaki Fukazawa, Shunsuke Sugimura, Yuichiro Yasuda, and Masanao Futakami, “Iterative Process to Improve GQM Models with Metrics Thresholds to Detect High-risk Files,” 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2015), Doctoral Symposium, 2015. (to appear)

We propose an iterative process to improve GQM models with metrics thresholds to detect high-risk files.

齊藤大仁, 櫨山淳雄, 吉岡信和, 熊谷梓, 小橋孝紀, 鷲崎弘宜, 海谷治彦, 大久保隆夫, “ソフトウェアセキュリティ知識を活用したセキュアなソフトウェア開発のための事例ベース管理システムの開発”, 電子情報通信学会 知能ソフトウェア工学研究会 (KBSE) , 2015年3月研究会, 東京, 2015年3月5-6日.

石井裕志, 丸屋宏ニ, 羽原寿和, 鷲崎弘宜, “プロジェクト特性を基にしたアジャイル開発適合性評価手法”, 情報処理学会第187回ソフトウェア工学研究発表会, 平成27年3月12日（木）～13日（金）, 化学会館, 2015. (to appear)

雨谷幸郎, 横田真人, 井出昌浩, 鷲崎弘宜, “システム企画における意思決定支援プロセスの提案”, 情報処理学会第187回ソフトウェア工学研究発表会, 平成27年3月12日（木）～13日（金）, 化学会館, 2015. (to appear)

Eduardo B. Fernandez, Nobukazu Yoshioka and Hironori Washizaki, “Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB): A pattern for accessing secure cloud services,” Proceedings of the 4th Asian Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (AsianPLoP 2015), March 5-7, 2015, Tokyo, Japan. (to appear)

Companies are using more and more cloud services, especially SaaS. These applications may handle sensitive data and the companies’ IT departments need to manage the security of a potentially large number of applications. Although the service provider may have a strong security infrastructure, the consumer is responsible for the security of the data used in these applications (the provider does not understand the data semantics). A new type of system software has recently appeared that can organize this security management; this is the Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB). A CASB controls access to the resources available to application users and also protects the data from malware. We present a pattern for this type of system. CASBs are an important part of the cloud ecosystems.

Hironori Washizaki, Tian Xia, Yoshiaki Fukazawa, “Introducing Software Reading Techniques into Pattern Writer’s Workshop: Checklists and Perspectives,” Proceedings of the 4th Asian Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (AsianPLoP 2015), March 5-7, 2015, Tokyo, Japan. (to appear)

Pattern Writer’s Workshop (WW) is a method to review, evaluate, and improve each other’s pattern or pattern language papers under the guidance of a moderator. Although the WW has been well accepted at the pattern community and xPLoP conferences, there could be several problems such as poor moderations leading to “ad hoc” review meetings. To address the problems, we propose an approach for introducing two existing major software reading techniques, Checklist-Based Reading (CBR) and Perspective-Based Reading (PBR), to the WW targeting software patterns and pattern languages, and discuss potential benefits and drawbacks. Moreover we confirmed benefits and drawbacks of the approach by conducting an experiment.

Timetable of the ‎SamurAICoding‬ 2014-15 World Final on March 18, collocated with 77th IPSJ National Convention at Kyoto University, has been announced. Everyone is welcome so that come to Kyoto, and watch exiting game together!

情報処理学会全国大会併設のSamurAI Coding 2014-15 決勝 World Finalの進行を掲載しました。どなたでも観戦いただけます。ぜひご一緒に、白熱の試合を観戦しましょう！

鷲崎准教授が防衛大学にて「ゴール指向に基づくソフトウェア品質評価とIT経営」について講義しました。具体的にはメトリクスの概念と留意事項、ゴール指向の測定評価の枠組みであるGQM法、ならびに、組織目標と戦略の整合を扱うGQM+Strategies手法を解説し、活発な議論を行いました。

鷲崎 弘宜、”ゴール指向に基づくソフトウェア品質評価とIT経営”、防衛大学 講義、2015年2月10日

Ryosuke Tsuchiya, Hironori Washizaki, Yoshiaki Fukazawa, Keishi Oshima, and Ryota Mibe, “Interactive Recovery of Requirements Traceability Links Using User Feedback and Configuration Management Logs,” Proceedings of 27th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2015), pp.XX-YY, 8-12 June 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden (to appear)

Traceability links can assist in software maintenance tasks. There are some automatic traceability recovery methods. Most of them are similarity-based methods recovering links by comparing representation similarity between requirements and code. They cannot work well if there are some links indepen-dent of the representation similarity. Herein to cover weakness of them and im-prove the accuracy of recovery, we propose a method that extends the similari-ty-based method using two elemental techniques: a log-based traceability re-covery method using the configuration management log and a link recommen-dation from user feedback. These techniques are independent of the representa-tion similarity between requirements and code. As a result of applying our me-thod to a large enterprise system, we successfully improved both recall and pre-cision by more than a 20 percent point in comparison with singly applying the similarity-based method (recall: 60.2% to 80.4%, precision: 41.1% to 64.8%).

‪‎SQuBOK‬ v2 講演会にて、鷲崎准教授がSQuBOKの設計開発領域およびそれを活用した品質の組み入れ活動について事例を交えて講演しました。品質への取り組みの一助となれぱ幸いです。

鷲崎 弘宜, “SQuBOK V2設計開発領域について”,  ソフトウェア品質知識体系ガイド （第2版） SQuBOK Guide V2発行記念講演会, 2015年2月9日