Third International Workshop on Academic Software Development Tools, Antwerp, Belgium

The Third International Workshop on Academic Software Development Tools will be held in Antwerp, Belgium on 20 September 2010.

The aim of the annual event is to explore the role that tools and tool-building play in applied academic software engineering research. Even though tool-building is a popular technique to validate research, it is neither simple nor cheap. Given the importance of tool building and the significant cost associated with it, the workshop will allow interested researchers to share their tool-building experiences and explore how tools can be built more effectively and efficiently.

Discussions at the event will not focus on any specific kind of tool, but rather the issues common to all tool builders, and builders of academic research prototypes in particular. Questions will include:
- 'Should tool building remain a craft?',
- 'Should academic tools be of commercial quality?',
- 'How to integrate and combine independently developed tools?',
- 'What are the positive lessons learned in building tools?',
- 'What are the pitfalls in tool building?',
- 'What are good practices?',
- 'What are effective techniques to improve the quality of academic tools?',
- 'What is needed to build an active community of developers and users?',
- 'Are there any useful tool building patterns for software engineering tools?',
- 'How to compare or benchmark such tools?',
- 'What particular languages and language paradigms are suited to build software engineering tools?'.For further information, please visit:
http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/wasdett2010/(opens in new window)