Editor's Meesage to Special Issue on Software Engineering
Takaaki Tateishi · Journal of Information Processing · 2016
Software engineering is a research area that covers theories and technologies of various aspects of software lifecycle including development and maintenance.In recent years, requirements to software quality and productivity are being changed in response to rapid chanages in IT environment as social infrastructure.Software engineering research has to find and solve current and prospective problems on practical software developments.Toward this situation, wide-ranging scientific and/or engineering approaches are needed, which includes new principles of software engineering based on theoretical researches and demonstrational experiments based on empirical researches in addition to long succession of universal fundamental theoretical researches.Futhermore, it is significantly important to integrate the multiple approaches and to find reliable and practical solutions.Because of this background, IPSJ Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSE), holds many events (e.g.: symposiums, workshops, research meetings), and calls on many software engineering researchers and software engineers to join the events, in order to share wide-ranging knolwedge including theoretical research results and experiences of practice among researchers, engineers, and practitioners.This special issue is also designed as a part of these activities.This special issue invited new research results and experiences about all aspects of software engineering.In addition, the editorial committee promoted submissions of papers to both this special issue and Software Engineering Symposium (SES) 2015, sponsored by SIGSE, in order to accelerate submissions of excellent papers and to drive contributions to society.This collaboration with SES is continuing from 2011.