Product-Focused Software Process Improvement: 24th International Conference, PROFES 2023, Dornbirn, Austria, December 10–13, 2023, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

✍ Scribed by Regine Kadgien (editor), Andreas Jedlitschka (editor), Andrea Janes (editor), Valentina Lenarduzzi (editor), Xiaozhou Li (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 163
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2023, which took place in Dornbirn, Austria, in December 2023.
The 21 full technical papers, 6 industrial papers, 8 short papers and 1 poster paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. The book also contains one tutorial paper, 11 workshop papers and 3 doctoral symposium papers.
The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows:
Part I: Software development and project management; machine learning and data science; software analysis and tools; software testing and quality assurance; security, vulnerabilities, and human factors;
Part II: Posters; Tutorials; 2nd Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering (CISE 2023); 2nd Workshop on Engineering Processes and Practicesfor Quantum Software (PPQS’ 23); doctoral symposium.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Organization
Contents – Part II
Contents – Part I
Poster
Metrics for Code Smells of ML Pipelines
1 Introduction
2 ML Pipelines
3 Metrics for ML Pipelines Code Smells
4 Discussion
5 Conclusions and Further Work
References
Tutorials
Declarative Process Mining for Software Processes: The RuM Toolkit and the Declare4Py Python Library
1 Introduction
2 Background
2.1 Event Logs, Traces, and Events
2.2 Declare
3 RuM and Declare4Py
3.1 Features of the Tools
4 Summary
References
2nd Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering (CISE 2023)
MaREA: Multi-class Random Forest for Automotive Intrusion Detection
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Background
4 Datasets
5 Proposed Approach
5.1 Experimental Phase
5.2 Experimental Setting
5.3 Evaluation Results
6 Conclusion
References
Forecasting the Developer's Impact in Managing the Technical Debt
1 Introduction
2 Related Works
3 Approach
3.1 Dataset
3.2 Features Model
3.3 Data Extraction Task
3.4 Developer's Impact Calculation Task
3.5 Forecasting Task
4 Results
5 Conclusions and Future Work
References
Development of a Desktop Application to Enable Doctors to Remotely Monitor Patients' Hematological Parameters
1 Introduction
2 Related and Background Works
3 DeskEmo Implementation
3.1 Data Transmission
3.2 Data Storage
4 User Interaction with DeskEmo
4.1 User Journeys
4.2 Structural and Functional Tests
5 Conclusion and Future Work
References
The Significance of Classical Simulations in the Adoption of Quantum Technologies for Software Development
1 Introduction
2 Methodology and Related Work
3 Classical Simulations in Performance Benchmark: Main Factors and a High-Level Process Representation
4 Conclusion
References
Enhancing Bug-Fixing Time Prediction with LSTM-Based Approach
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Proposed Method
3.1 Deep LSTM Basics
3.2 Word Embedding
3.3 Proposed Deep LSTM-Based Method
3.4 Data Set
4 Empirical Investigation
5 Performance Evaluation
5.1 Comparison of Two Methods for Predicting Bug-Fixing Time Using Data from Previous Years
5.2 Impact of the Duration Between Bug Report Receipt and Prediction on Model Effectiveness
5.3 Study Limitations
6 Conclusion
References
Enhancing Code Obfuscation Techniques: Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Malware Detection
1 Introduction
2 State of the Art
3 Proposal
4 Results
5 Conclusions
References
A Perspective on the Interplay Between 5G and Quantum Computing for Secure Algorithm and Software Engineering
1 Introduction
2 5G Background
3 Post Quantum Cryptography Background
4 Challenges and Opportunities
5 Conclusion
References
Speech Therapy Supported by AI and Smart Assistants
1 Introduction
2 e-SpeechT System
3 A New Skill for Amazon Alexa
4 Scenario
5 Conclusions and Future Works
References
2nd Workshop on Engineering Processes and Practices for Quantum Software (PPQS‘23)
Integration of Classical and Quantum Services Using an Enterprise Service Bus
1 Introduction
2 Research Context and Motivation
3 Integration of Quantum Services into Existing Workflow and ESB Tools
3.1 Business Process Model and Notation
3.2 Zato: Description and Benefits
3.3 Extending of Zato for Supporting Quantum Services
3.4 BPMN to Zato Translator
4 Case Study: Implementing QAOA with Zato Quantum Services
5 Related Work
6 Conclusions
References
Problem Decomposition to Leverage Quantum Computing for Optimization Problems
1 Introduction
2 Background of Hybrid Computing Systems
3 Decision Support Assisted by Quantum Computing
3.1 Textual Description of Decomposition Approach
3.2 Illustration of Decomposition Approach
3.3 Algorithms for Decomposition Approach
4 Conclusion
References
Quantum Algorithm Cards: Streamlining the Development of Hybrid Classical-Quantum Applications
1 Introduction
2 Background
3 Architectural and Operational Concerns
4 Quantum Algorithm Card Proposal
5 Discussion and Future Work
References
Doctoral Symposium
Simulation-Based Safety Testing of Automated Driving Systems
1 Motivation and Problem Statement
2 Research Goals
3 Approach and Planned Contributions
4 Preliminary Results of Contribution 1
5 Related Work
References
Utilization of Machine Learning for the Detection of Self-admitted Vulnerabilities
1 Introduction
2 State of the Art
3 Proposal
4 Conclusion and Future Work
References
Closing the Loop: Towards a Complete Metamorphic Testing Pipeline
1 Introduction
2 MR Generation and Selection
2.1 Ongoing Work
2.2 Planned Work
2.3 Preliminary Achievements
3 MR Constrain Definition
3.1 Ongoing Work
3.2 Planned Work
3.3 Preliminary Achievements
4 Evaluation and Validation
5 Final Remarks
References
Author Index