SEAFOOD, the First International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches For Offshore and Outsourced Development (SEAFOOD) was held at ETH Zurich, Switzerland on 5-6 February 2007. The conference was a great success and a successor event will be held, again at ETH Zurich, in early 2008. Please watch out for announcements of SEAFOOD 2008.

Many thanks to all those who made SEAFOOD 2007 possible. The post-conference proceedings will be published as a volume in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, available mid-2007.

The present site remains available as a source of information on SEAFOOD 2007.

Conference program

Keynote speakers

K. Ananthkrishnan, Chief Technology Officer, Tata Consultancy Services
Stuart Feldman, Vice President for computer science, IBM
Watts Humphrey , Software Engineering Institute
Andrey Terekhov, State University of Saint Petersburg and TEPKOM

Program co-chairs

Mathai Joseph, Executive Vice President, Tata Consultancy Services
Bertrand Meyer, ETH Zurich

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), forthcoming, 12-14 February 2007.
• TOOLS EUROPE 2007, forthcoming, 24-28 June 2007.
• The LASER summer school on software engineering, every September in Elba (Italy).

For any information please contact:

seafood AT se.inf.ethz.ch.

Conference location

The conference was held in the Auditorium Maximum in the main building (building HG for Hauptgebäude) of ETH Zurich. Street address: Rämistrasse 5, Zürich 6.

From the Zurich main station: take tram number 6 or 10 to "ETH/Universitätspital" stop (also served by tram 9 from Paradeplatz); or walk across the river to "Central" and take the "Polybahn" cable car to the entrance on Leonhardstrasse.

Publication

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