CHASE 2020

13th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering

(CHASE 2020)

An ICSE 2020 Workshop

A Virtual Workshop

Day 1 ("Atlantic"): 1 July 2020 at 16:00-19:00 UTC

Day 2 ("Pacific"): 2 July 2020 at 06:00-09:00 UTC

Update 18 June 2020:

CHASE 2020 program published (see below).

Update 2 June 2020:

CHASE 2020 will have two days organised as thematic sessions with discussions focusing on topics covered in accepted papers. There will also be video presentations from paper authors as well as slides presented in a virtual reality space. More information will be published very soon. Note: CHASE 2020 registration will open on 10 June 2020 at the main ICSE 2020 web site.

Update 7 May 2020:

CHASE 2020 will be organized as an online workshop around the ICSE 2020 dates. More information will be published as soon as it is available.

Update 6 May 2020:

ICSE 2020 has been rescheduled and will be held as a virtual conference. The CHASE 2020 organizing committee is considering what this means for CHASE 2020. Please follow the updates on the ICSE 2020 web site for more information. More detailed information on CHASE 2020 will be published as soon as it is available.

Update 16 March 2020:

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CHASE 2020 is rescheduled following the rescheduling of ICSE 2020. The CHASE 2020 organizing committee is following the situation and taking the necessary steps to organize the workshop in a safe manner. Please follow the updates on the ICSE 2020 web site for more information. More detailed information on CHASE 2020 will be published as soon as it is available.

Workshop Overview

The software industry is experiencing dramatic changes: distributed software development is done in an agile way; agile methodologies scaled to meet the requirements to support projects with several hundred developers, and frequently deploying software which leads to continuous development practices. As software engineering practices evolve, the Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE) change as well. It is crucial to understand current and emerging software practices, processes, and tools and their impact on important local and global issues. In turn, this enables us to design tools and support mechanisms that improve software creation and maintenance, customer communication, and the use and evolution of deployed software systems. 

CHASE will provide a forum for both exploring new directions, presenting mature research, and discussing early results. This will be the 13th in a series of workshops held at ICSE focusing on this theme. Based on our experience, it will be a meeting place for the academic, industrial, and practitioner communities interested in this area, and will give opportunities to present and discuss works-in-progress.. 

The visualization of CHASE history and CHASE authors' network can be viewed in the following link: http://chasevis.azurewebsites.net/.

Workshop Program

The workshop program is split into two 3-hour sessions, held over Zoom (see your author or participant information email for details on how to join). Each session starts with opening statements from paper authors, followed by a discussion in which all participants are invited to attend.

In addition to the sessions, posters and longer presentation videos will be available online. We encourage all participants to get familiar with the papers before the discussion sessions!

The posters will be displayed in the CHASE 2020 virtual hub, where participants can see and discuss the posters. Poster discussion will also take place in the CHASE 2020 Slack workspace. Links to poster presentation videos are posted in the program below. See your author or participant information email for details on how to access the hub and Slack workspace.

1 July 2020

2 July 2020

List of Accepted Papers

Important Dates

Workshop Themes                                                

Topics of interest are about the human, cooperative, and collaborative aspects of software engineering such as:

Possible contributions include:

Submissions

We have three paper categories: 

These different categories offer researchers who are at different stages in their research maturity the opportunity to benefit from workshop participation. Page limits include references. 

All paper and notes submissions will be reviewed by 3 program committee members. The authors of accepted submissions will be asked to join the workshop. We will encourage all participants to submit at least a 2-page note, but the workshop will be open. All interested parties are welcome to register, even without an accepted paper.

Submissions should be made at the following website:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chase2020

Workshop proceedings will be prepared by IEEE CPS and published by ACM. Workshop papers must follow the ICSE 2020 Format and Submission Guidelines (ACM). Accepted papers will be hosted on a password-protected, CHASE-hosted, collaboration site to foster discussion prior to the workshop. The official publication date of the workshop proceedings is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of ICSE 2020. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

Given time limitations and the interactive nature of CHASE's workshop format (for instance, see the CHASE 2019 Program), only a subset of papers will be selected for presentations based on their representativeness and potential for generating discussion. All accepted papers may contribute a poster to a poster session. All interested parties are welcome to register, even without an accepted paper.

Workshop Organizers 

Program Committee

Open Science Practices

CHASE 2020 continues its previous years' experimentation with encouraging authors to use open science to make their research, data and dissemination accessible to anybody in the world with an Internet connection. Here follow our guidelines and recommendations for open access, open data and open source, and signed peer review.

The following guidelines are recommendations and not mandatory. Your choice to use open science or not will not affect the review process for your paper.

Open Access

We encourage CHASE authors to self-archive their pre- and postprints in open, preserved repositories. This is legal and allowed by all major publishers including ACM and IEEE (granted in the copyright transfer agreement), and it lets anybody in the world reach your paper.

If the authors of your paper wish to do this, we recommend:

We encourage you to use a preserved, archived repository instead of your personal website. Personal websites are prone to changes and errors, and more than 30% of them will not work in a 4 years period.

Open Data and Open Source

We encourage authors of accepted papers to make their data public, in order to enhance the transparency of the process and the reproducibility of the results.

If the authors of your paper wish to do this, we recommend:

Similarly, we encourage authors to make their research software accessible as open source and citable.

Similarly to our open access, we encourage you to avoid putting the data on your own websites or systems like Dropbox, since more than 30% of them will not work in a 4 years period.

Signed Peer Review

Reviewers of CHASE can choose to sign their reports as a first step to experiment with an open peer review process at ICSE venues.