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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 and Undergraduate Program Director |
Information about IS 399 and IS 199
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
- Yuepu Guo
- Mark Pohl
- Viviane
Malheiros de Pinho (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
- Liliana
Guzman (
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:
Publications:
Exploring Language in Software Process Elicitation: A Grounded Theory Approach,
Gauging acceptance of software metrics: Comparing
perspectives of managers and developers, Medha Umarji and Carolyn Seaman, International Symposium on Empirical
Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM09),
Software Engineering Education for Bioinformatics, Umarji, M., Seaman, C., Koru, A.G., Liu, H. 22nd IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, Feb 2009, Hyderabad, India.
Linking Software Development and Business Strategy Through Measurement, Victor Basili , Jens Heidrich, Mikael Lindvall, Jürgen Münch, Myrna Regardie, Dieter Rombach, Carolyn Seaman, Adam Trendowicz. IEEE Computer, in press, 2009.
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.
Information and Software Technology. 49(6):576-587, January 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 June 24, 2009, by cseaman@umbc.edu