Impressions from ICSE 2010 – part 4

The last session before lunch contain two interesting talks – the first talk was on the automated processing of ‘clones’ in requirements documents. I wish I had that tool while I was working at IBM, as it would have saved me tons of time. The second talk was given by Roland Yap from Singapore University was about the detection and visualisation of dependencies between software components. The main two things from his talk were: a) Roland and his team had confirmed that during runtime software has a bunch of dependencies that you can find using static analysis techniques (i.e., source code) – at least for Microsoft Windows based applications, and b) there approach for visualising the dependencies looks promising for dealing with a large number of inter-dependencies.