Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on BIG Data Software Engineering

Abstract

Big Data is about extracting valuable information from data in order to use it in intelligent ways such as to revolutionize decision-making in businesses, science and society. Big Data may open up radical new ways and unprecedented opportunities of attacking software engineering problems. Already now forums, forges, blogs, Q&A sites, and social networks, provide a wealth of data that may be analysed to uncover new requirements, provide evidence on usage and development trends of application frameworks, or to perform empirical studies involving real-world software developers. In addition, real-time data collected from mobile and cloud applications may be analysed to detect user trends, preferences, and optimization opportunities. BIGDSE 2016 features contributions and discussions that explore opportunities that Big Data technology offers to software engineering, both in research and practice ("big data for software engineering"). BIGDSE also looks at the software engineering challenges imposed by building Big Data software systems ("software engineering for big data").