SEAFOOD, the Second International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches For Offshore and Outsourced Development (SEAFOOD) was held at ETH Zurich, Switzerland at ETH Zurich, Switzerland on July 3-4 2008. The conference was a great success and a successor event will be held, again at ETH Zurich, in July 2009. Please watch out for announcements of SEAFOOD 2009.

Many thanks to all those who made SEAFOOD 2008 possible. The present site remains available as a source of information on SEAFOOD 2008.

Program co-chairs

Mathai Joseph, Tata Consultancy Services
Bertrand Meyer, ETH Zurich

News

The keynotes' talks are on-line

Conference program

Keynote speakers

Ashish Arora - Carnegie Mellon University - Heinz School
Dick Simmons - Texas A&M University

About SEAFOOD

A profound transformation is affecting the world of software engineering: a massive transfer of development activities from the US and Europe to developing countries. The technical implications are considerable (see an overview article here), but have not been examined yet in any systematic fashion.

The aim of SEAFOOD is to examine offshore and outsourced development from a technical software engineering perspective. Topics include:

• Requirements engineering and system specification for outsourced projects
• Project management and team organization for distributed software projects
• Distributed configuration management
• Quality assurance techniques for outsourced projects
• Effect of outsourcing on software testing technology
• Educational and training issues of distributed projects
• Effect of cultural differences on software development

SEAFOOD is part of a sequence of successful software conferences organized by the Chair of Software Engineering at ETH Zurich:

• VSTTE (Verified Software: Tools, Theories, Experiments) in 2005.
• TAP (Tests And Proofs), in 2007.
• TOOLS EUROPE 2007, in 2007.
• The LASER summer school on software engineering, every September in Elba (Italy).

For any information please contact:

seafood AT se.inf.ethz.ch.

Publication

The proceedings of SEAFOOD will be a volume in the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).