TOPI 2013 - 3rd Workshop on Developing Tools as Plug-ins (TOPI 2013)

Our knowledge as to how to solve software engineering problems is increasingly being encapsulated in tools. These tools are at their strongest when they operate in a pre-existing development environment that can provide integration with existing elements such as compilers, debuggers, profilers and visualizers. Some also exist beyond development time and work with the runtime. A further challenge is to develop tools that can span different ? and future - development environments and runtimes. This workshop should of interest to all those interested in developing tools as plug-ins for IDEs, runtimes and browsers. We will examine the categories of problems that are best solved in this way, and look at the future challenges.
Overview
The workshop wants to address the following themes:
?identify recent successful tools as plug-ins
?categorize the characteristics of good plug-ins
?understand interoperability requirements to making tools available across platforms
?list which tools lend themselves best to the plug- in approach
?specify the medium and long term challenges of tools as plug-ins
Thus, we are more concerned in this workshop with understanding the characteristics and creation of tools as plug-ins, than of the tools themselves.
Goals
?Computer supported cooperative work
?Empirical software engineering
?Engineering secure software
?Mining software repositories
?Programming languages and design
?Software dependability, safety, and reliability
?Software engineering education
?Software processes
?Software requirements engineering
?Software testing and analysis
?Software verification
?Static analysis and bug-finding