A summary of the fifth Evaluating Collaborative Enterprises (ECE)
workshop which ran on June 14th at University of Modena, Italy. The
overall theme of the workshop this year was evaluation within the
software lifecyle rather than as a separate activity. Each of the
five papers touched on this subject and the subsequent winner of
Best Paper covered it thoroughly.
Concerns about the level of interactivity within the workshop and
WETICE itself prompted a format change to ``paired-paper'' sessions
with plenty of discussion time.
Several outstanding issus were identified during the discussion,
including development of ``evaluation components'' alongside
software components, the need to convince managers of the business
case for evaluation and meta-evaluation of popular techniques with a
view to avoiding studies that select inappropriate techniques or
rely too heavily on one type of technique
