PROMISE’11: The 7th international conference on predictor models in software engineering.
A co-located event with ESEM 2011 – The 5th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement.

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What is PROMISE?

PROMISE= PRedictOr Models In Software Engineering Software management decisions should be based on well-understood and well-supported predictive models.

A good model should be a generalization of real-world data. But where does the data come from?

Collecting data from real world software engineering projects is problematic. Software projects are notoriously difficult to control and corporations are often reluctant to expose their own software development record to public scrutiny.

Since data is difficult to attain, we need to make better use of the whatever data is available. For example, we need to know:

• How much do we need to know about software engineering in order to build effective models?
• How to adapt models to new data?
• How to streamline the data or the process?
• How can predictive modeling gain greater acceptance by the SE community?

History

Promise 2011 follows on the success of the past five years of workshops (2006-2010) and our first year as a full conference (2009).