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Carolyn Seaman E-mail cseaman AT umbc DOT edu US Mail University of Maryland, Baltimore County Department of Information Systems Information Technology & Engineering (ITE) Building Room 404B 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250 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)
- System Maintenance
- Advanced Field Research Methods (IS 805)
- Alice Programming (IS 125)
- Computational Thinking and Design (COMP 101)
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
Dr. Medha Umarji - Gauging developer acceptance of software process improvement methodologies – Graduate May 2010
Dr. Susan Mitchell - Software Process Improvement through the Removal of Project-level Knowledge Flow Obstacles: The Perceptions of Software Engineers – Graduated May 2012
Currently mentoring
the following PhD students:
- Yuepu Guo
- Brandt Braunschweig
- Liliana Guzman (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
- Brian Frey
Academic Degrees:
- PhD in Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1996.
- M.S. in Information and Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 1987.
- B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics (with honors, Phi Beta Kappa), College of Wooster, Wooster, OH, 1986.
Research Interests:
- Technical Debt
- Software metrics
- Software maintenance
- Qualitative research methods
- Communication and coordination in software teams
- Empirical software engineering
- Knowledge management
Affiliations:
·
Empirical
and Applied Software Engineering Lab (EASEL) at UMBC
·
Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software
Engineering (FC-MD)
·
International Software Engineering Research
Network (ISERN)
·
Information
and Software Technology Journal (ISTJ)
Selected
Publications:
Comparing four approaches
for technical
debt identification, Nico
Zazworka, Antonio Vetro’, Clemente Izurieta, Sunny Wong, Yuanfang Cai, Carolyn
Seaman and Forrest Shull, Software Quality Journal, 21(2), April 2013. DOI: 10.1007/s11219-013-9200-8.
A Balancing Act: What Software Practitioners Have to Say about Technical Debt. Erin Lim, Nitin Taksande, and Carolyn Seaman. IEEE Software, 29(6):22-27, DOI: 10.1109/MS.2012.130, 2012.
Organizing
the Technical Debt Landscape. Clemente Izurieta, Antonio Vetro’, Nico
Zazworka, Yuanfang Cai, Carolyn Seaman, and Forrest Shull. Third International Workshop on Managing
Technical Debt (MTD), pp. 23-26, DOI: 10.1109/MTD.2012.6225995,
2012.
An empirical study of process knowledge: coherence as a static process property. Carlton A. Crabtree, Anthony F. Norcio, and Carolyn B. Seaman. Journal of Software Evolution and Process, DOI: 10.1002/smr.1567, August 2012.
Software Process Improvement through the Identification and Removal of
Project-level Knowledge Flow Obstacles. Susan
M. Mitchell and Carolyn B. Seaman. International
Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Track on New Insights and
Emerging Results (NIER), DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227103,
2012.
A Knowledge Mapping
Technique for Project-level Knowledge Flow Analysis. Susan M. Mitchell and Carolyn B. Seaman. International Symposium on Empirical
Software Engineering and Measurement. Pp. 347-350. DOI: 10.1109/ESEM.2011.45. 2011.
Tracking
Technical Debt – An Exploratory Case Study. Yuepu Guo, Carolyn Seaman,
Rebeka Gomes, Antonio Cavalcanti, Graziela Tonin, Fabio Q. B. Da Silva, André
L. M. Santos, Clauirton Siebra, Proceedings
of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM’ 11),
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2011.6080824. Pp. 528-531, 2011
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, 43:4(57-65), DOI: 10.1109/MC.2010.108. April 2010.
Managing Technical Debt in Software-reliant Systems. Nanette Brown, Yuanfang Cai, Yuepu Guo, Rick Kazman, Miryung Kim, Philippe Kruchten, Erin Lim, Alan MacCormack, Robert Nord, Ipek Ozkaya, Raghvinder Sangwan, Carolyn Seaman, Kevin Sullivan, Nico Zazworka, Proceedings of the 18th FSE/SDP Workshop on Future of Software Engineering Research, 47-52, DOI: 10.1145/1882362.1882373. 2010.
Building Empirical Support for Automated Code Smell Detection. Jan Schumacher, Nico Zazworka, Forrest Shull, Carolyn Seaman, Michele Shaw, Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM '10), 67-76, DOI: 10.1145/1852786.1852797. 2010.
Domain-Specific
Tailoring of Code Smells: An Empirical Study. Yuepu
Guo, Carolyn Seaman, Nico Zazworka, Forrest Shull, Proceedings of the 32nd
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '10),
167-170,
DOI: 10.1145/1810295.1810321. 2010.
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), Lake Buena Vista, USA, DOI: 10.1109/ESEM.2009.5315999. October 2009.
Software Engineering Education for Bioinformatics. Umarji, M., Seaman, C., Koru, A.G., Liu, H. 22nd IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, DOI: 10.1109/CSEET.2009.44. Feb 2009, Hyderabad, India.
Why do Programmers Avoid Metrics? Medha Umarji and Carolyn Seaman. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM08), Kaiserslautern, Germany, DOI: 10.1145/1414004.1414027. October 2008.
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), Montreal, December 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.
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.
The Information Gathering Strategies of Software Maintainers. Carolyn B. Seaman. Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance, pp. 141-149, October 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.
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), Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 2001.
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), Limerick, Ireland, June 2000.
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.
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.
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, Toronto, November 1996.
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, Toronto, November 1994
Last updated on August 15, 2013, by cseaman@umbc.edu