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Carolyn Seaman E-mail cseaman AT umbc DOT edu US Mail Department of Information Systems Information Technology & Engineering (ITE) Building Room 444 Phone: 1 410 455 3937 Fax: 1 410 455 1073 Current Position: Associate Professor |
Syllabi from previous and current courses:
- Systems Analysis and Design (undergraduate, graduate, and online)
- Introduction to Database Design
- System Maintenance
- System Design
- Advanced Field Research Methods
- Alice Programming (IS 125)
Former PhD students:
Dr. Nabie Conteh – “Just In Time” Intelligent Decision Support – Graduated December 2004
Dr. Gilberto Muñoz Cornejo – Adoption of Open Source Software in Hospitals – Graduated December 2007
Currently mentoring the following PhD students:
- Medha Umarji
- Susan Mitchell
- Miguel Buddle
- Mark Pohl
- Yuepu Guo
- Viviane Malheiros de Pinho (visiting from University
of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Academic Degrees:
- PhD in Computer Science, University of Maryland,
- M.S. in Information and
Computer Science, Georgia
Institute of Technology,
- B.A. in Computer Science and
Mathematics (with honors, Phi Beta Kappa), College of Wooster,
Research Interests:
- Software maintenance
- Bioinformatics software engineering
- Software metrics
- Software engineering experience management
- Qualitative research methods
- Empirical software engineering
- Knowledge management
Affiliations:
- Empirical and Applied Software Engineering Lab (EASEL) at UMBC
- Experimental Software Engineering Group (ESEG) at the University of Maryland College Park
- Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering (FC-MD)
- International Software Engineering Research Network (ISERN)
Publications:
Defect Categorization: Making Use of a Decade of Widely
Varying Historical Data, Carolyn Seaman, Forrest Shull, Myrna Regardie, Denis
Elbert, Raimund Feldmann, Yuepu Guo, and Sally Godfrey. Proceedings of the International
Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM08),
Why do Programmers Avoid Metrics?,
Medha Umarji and Carolyn Seaman. Proceedings
of the International Symposium on
Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM08),
A Survey of Software Project Managers on
Software Process Change, Yuepu Guo and Carolyn Seaman. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and
Measurement (ESEM08),
An Empirical Investigation into the Adoption of Open Source Software in Hospitals, Gilberto Munoz-Cornejo, Carolyn B. Seaman, and A. Gunes Koru. International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics. 3(3):16-37, July-September 2008.
Bridging
the Gap Between Business Strategy and Software
Development, Victor Basili, Mikael Lindvall, Myrna Regardie, Carolyn
Seaman, Jens Heidrich, Jurgen Munch, Dieter Rombach, and Adam Trendowicz. Proceedings of the International Conference
on Information Systems (ICIS 2007),
GQM+Strategies: A Comprehensive Methodology for Aligning Business Strategies
with Software Measurement, Victor Basili, Jens Heidrich, Mikael Lindvall,
Jurgen Munch, Myrna Regardie, Dieter Rombach, Carolyn Seaman, and Adam
Trendowicz. Proceedings of Metrikon 2007,
The Value of War Stories in Debunking the Myths of Documentation in
Software Maintenance, Wayne G. Lutters and Carolyn
B. Seaman. Information and Software Technology. DOI information:
10.1016/j.infsof.2007.02.013. In press,
2007.
On the Impact of a Collaborative Pedagogy on African-American
Millennial Students in Software Engineering, Laurie Williams, Lucas Layman,
Kelli M. Slaten, Sarah B. Berenson, and Carolyn Seaman. Proceedings
of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2007) Education
Track,
Understanding Documentation Value in Software
Maintenance, Sumita Das, Wayne G. Lutters, and Carolyn B. Seaman. ACM Symposium on Computer Human
Interaction for Management of Information Technology (CHIMIT),
Conceptualizing Software Engineering People issues, M. Umarji and C. Seaman. Workshop on Ontology, Conceptualizations and
Epistemology for Software and Systems Engineering, June 9-10, 2005,
Predicting Acceptance of Software Process Improvement, M. Umarji and C. Seaman. Workshop on Human and Social Factors in Software Engineering (HSSE’05)
– Co-located with ICSE’05,
Software
Maintenance and Support: Identifying Routine Work Artifacts as Boundary Objects
Across Time, Wayne G. Lutters and Carolyn Seaman. Workshop:
Identifying Gaps between HCI, Software Engineering and Design, and Boundary
Objects to Bridge Them, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2004. [IFIP 7.2 hosted
@ www.se-hci.org/bridging/chi2004/]
User Interface Evaluation and Empirically-Based Evolution of a Prototype Experience Management Tool, Carolyn B. Seaman, Manoel Mendonca, Victor Basili, Yong-Mi Kim. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 29(9): 838-850, September 2003.
A Web Repository
of Lessons Learned from COTS-based Software Development, I. Rus, C. Seaman,
M. Lindvall, V.R. Basili, and B. Boehm, CrossTalk, vol. 15, no. 9, pp.
25, September 2002.
A Web Repository of Lessons
Learned from COTS-Based Software Development,
The Information Gathering Strategies of Software Maintainers. Carolyn B. Seaman. Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance, pp. 141-149, October 2002.
Lessons-Learned Repository for COTS-Based SW Development, Victor Basili, Mikael Lindvall, Ioana Rus, Carolyn Seaman, and Barry Boehm. Software Technology Newsletter, 5(3), September 2002.
A Web Repository of Lessons Learned from COTS-based Software Development, Ioana Rus, Carolyn Seaman, Mikael Lindvall, Victor Basili, and Barry Boehm. Crosstalk, 15(9):25, September 2002.
COTS-Based Software Development: Processes and Open Issues. M. Morisio, C.B. Seaman, V.R. Basili, A.T. Parra, S.E. Kraft, and S.E. Condon. Journal of Systems and Software, 61(3):189-199, April 2002.
An Experience Management System for a Software Engineering Research
Organization. Victor Basili, Patricia
Costa, Mikael Lindvall, Manoel Mendonca, Carolyn Seaman, Roseanne Tesoriero,
and Marvin Zelkowitz. . Software Engineering Workshop, NASA/Goddard
Software Engineering Laboratory,
A Prototype Experience Management System for a Software Consulting
Organization. Manoel Mendonca, Carolyn
Seaman, Victor Basili, and Yong-Mi Kim. Proceedings of the International
Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE01),
Investigating
and Improving a COTS-Based Software Development Process. M. Morisio, C.B.
Seaman, A.T. Parra, V.R. Basili, S.E. Kraft, and S.E. Condon. Proceedings of
the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2000),
An Experience Management System for a Software Consulting
Organization. Carolyn B. Seaman, Manoel
Mendonca, Victor Basili, and Yong-Mi Kim. Software Engineering Workshop,
NASA/Goddard Software Engineering Laboratory,
Qualitative Methods in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering. Carolyn B. Seaman, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 25(4):557-572, July/August 1999.
Communication
and Organization: An Empirical Study of Discussion in Inspection Meetings.
Carolyn B. Seaman and Victor R. Basili, IEEE Transactions on Software
Engineering, 24(6), June 1998.
Q-MOPP: Qualitative evaluation of Maintenance Organizations,
Processes, and Products.
Lionel Briand, Yong-Mi Kim, Walcelio Melo, Carolyn Seaman, and Victor
Basili, Software Maintenance: Research and Practice, 10:249-278, 1998.
The Package-Based Development Process in the Flight Dynamics Division,
A. Parra, C. Seaman, V. Basili, S. Kraft, S. Condon, S. Burke, D. Yakimovich, The
Twenty-second Software Engineering Workshop, NASA/Goddard Space Flight
Center Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL), Greenbelt, MD, December 1997, pp.
21-56.
Communication
and Organization in Software Development: An Empirical Study.
Carolyn B. Seaman and Victor R. Basili, IBM Systems Journal, 36(4),
1997.
An empirical study of communication in code inspections.
Carolyn B. Seaman and Victor R. Basili. In Proc. of the 1997
International Conference on Software Engineering, Boston, MA, May 17-24,
1997.
The Study of Software Maintenance Organizations and Processes, Carolyn B. Seaman and Victor R. Basili, a position paper presented at the International Workshop on Empiricial Studies of Software Maintenance (WESS), Monterey, CA, November 1996, and published in Empirical Software Engineering, 2:2(197-201).
Organizational
Issues in Software Development: An Empirical Study of Communication.
C. Seaman, PhD Thesis, Computer Science Department, University of Maryland,
Technical Report CS-TR-3726, UMIACS Technical Report UMIACS-TR-96-94, 1996.
Evolving the Reuse Process at the Flight Dynamics Division (FDD)
Goddard Space Flight Center.
S. Condon, S. Kraft, J. Kontio C. Seaman and Y. Kim. The Twenty-first
Annual Software Engineering Workshop, NASA/Goddard Software Engineering
Laboratory (SEL), Greenbelt, Maryland, December 1996, pp. 27-58.
Communication
Costs in Code and Design Reviews: An Empirical Study.
C.B. Seaman, Proceedings of CASCON '96 (CD-ROM), IBM Centre for
Advanced Studies,
Characterizing
and assessing a large-scale software maintenance organization.
L. Briand, W. Melo, C. Seaman, and V. Basili, In Proc. of the 17th Int'l
Conf. on Software Engineering, Seattle, WA, April 24-28, 1995.
Using the OPT
improvement approach in the SQL/DS development environment.
C. Seaman, Presented at CASCON'94,
OPT: Organization and Process Together.
Carolyn B. Seaman , Proceedings of CASCON'93, IBM Centre for Advanced
Studies,
AAA: A Modeling Language for Software Production Environments.
Carolyn B. Seaman , Proceedings of CASCON'92, IBM Centre for Advanced
Studies,
Data Modeling: Order Out of Chaos.
Carolyn B. Seaman , ACM Computer Science Conference,
Last updated on July 1, 2008, by cseaman@umbc.edu