Abstract :
The main goal of this workshop is to understand the opportunities and challenges of developing tools as plug-ins. In particular, we would like to discuss the characteristics of good plug-ins, understand interoperability requirements to making tools available across platforms, identify recent successful tools as plug-ins and specify the medium and long-term challenges of tools as plug-ins. We received a total of 32 submissions with authors from 18 different countries. Each paper was reviewed by at least 3 members of the TOPI 2012 program committee. We have accepted 14 works as full papers and 4 as short papers. The program comprises position papers including new proposals for plug-in architectures as well as their interaction with development environments and run - times and papers discussing the implementation of different kind of tools as plug-ins. The TOPI 2012 workshop will provide an interesting forum for researchers interested in developing software engineering tools and plug-ins. We hope that TOPI will encourage other researchers to participate in this discussion. Your attendance here today shapes the future conversations we will have, and we look forward to seeing you all, alongside any and all newcomers, in the workshops to come.
