ASWEC was established in 1986 and is Australasia’s leading forum for the software engineering profession to describe important new research results and report valuable project experiences.

Software is everywhere, and the way it is built remains a challenge. In the past decades, software engineering as a discipline has produced many theoretical and practical results. As software is playing more important roles in ever larger and more complex systems, traditional software engineering is interacting substantially with more fields.  For example, the emerging research activities around DevOps are looking at the complex interactions between product development and operations in modern IT infrastructure.  The challenges in building highly dependable large-scale systems lie in reconnecting logic-based formal methods with other statistical approaches in new ways to better manage the uncertainties of the environment and provide assurance cases. Industry’s use of dynamic, concurrent and functional programming languages in specific domains is making programming language research more connected to software engineering. Cloud computing, service-oriented computing, mobile apps, big data, Internet of Things and software ecosystems are also bringing new contexts to software engineering research.

The scope of software engineering research needs to be expanded and more interaction with other communities will benefit the research going forward. The theme for the next ASWEC is “The Future of Software Engineering”. We are particularly seeking contributions that help redefine the future scope of software engineering from both the traditional software engineering community and other fields. Topics of interest for ASWEC14 include (but are not limited to) the following:

    Agile Methods
    Computer Supported Cooperative Software Engineering
    Configuration Management
    Dependable and Secure Computing
    DevOps and Operations (esp. in Distributed/Cloud Environment)
    Domain-specific Models and Languages, and Model Driven Development
    Domain-specific Applications for Logistics, Finance, Health Care, Manufacturing, Defence and etc.
    Empirical Research in Software Engineering
    Engineering Big Data and Analytics Applications
    Engineering Cloud Applications
    Engineering/operating Large-Scale Distributed Systems
    Formal Methods
    Knowledge-Based Software Engineering
    Legacy Systems, Software Maintenance and Reverse Engineering
    Measurement, Metrics, Experimentation
    Mobile Computing and Apps Development
    Modularisation Techniques, including Component-Based Software Engineering and Aspect-Oriented Programming
    Open Source Software Development
    Programming Languages and Techniques such as Dynamic Languages, Concurrent and Functional Programming
    Quality Assurance
    Real-Time and Embedded Software
    Requirements Engineering
    Service Oriented Architectures and Services Engineering
    Software Analysis and Visualisation
    Software Architecture, Design and Patterns
    Software Documentation
    Software Ecosystem and Ultra-Large-Scale Systems
    Software Engineering of Multi-Agent Systems
    Software Engineering of Services
    Software for Internet of Things and Ubiquitous Computing
    Software Modelling Approaches
    Software Performance Engineering
    Software Processes and Quality
    Software Project Management and Risk Management
    Software Reuse and Product Lines
    Software Security, Safety and Reliability
    Software Verification and Validation
    Standards and Legal Issues
    Usability
    Web Applications and REST

Contributions for ASWEC 2014 can be submitted in the form of: Research submissions,  Industry/Government submissions, Education submissions, and Doctoral Symposium submissions.