The SugarLoaf Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP®) conference is a premier event for pattern authors and pattern enthusiasts to gather, discuss, and learn more about patterns and software development. SugarLoafPLoP® conferences are promoted and sponsored by The Hillside Group. The Hillside Group, through PLoP® and other activities, promotes the use of patterns and pattern languages to record, analyze, and improve software and its development, and supports any new practices that help achieve these goals.
Preliminary versions of these papers were workshopped at Latin-American Pattern Languages of Programs (SugarLoafPLoP) ’18 November 20-23, 2018, Valparaíso, Chile. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers, or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission. Copyright is held by the authors.
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SugarLoafPLoP 2018, the 12th Latin-American Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs brought together researchers, educators, and practitioners whose interests span a remarkably broad range of topics and who share an interest in exploring the power of the pattern form.
This edition of SugarLoafPLoP was held for the first time in Valparaiso, Chile, incorporating several Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking participants from Latin-America, along with participants from USA, Germany, and Portugal.
This year’s program included two main tracks: the traditional Writers’ Workshops, where authors had the opportunity to refine and extend their patterns with the help from knowledgeable and empathetic fellow pattern enthusiasts.
SugarLoafPLoP was held at the main campus of the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria in Valparaiso, Chile.
These proceedings are the result of the work of authors, shepherds, reviewers, and conference participants. After the conference, the authors were strongly encouraged to further evolve their papers in order to accommodate suggestions for improvement gathered during the discussions at the conference.
We would like to thank all authors, shepherds, reviewers, and members of the Program Committee for their time and collaboration. Thank you all for making SugarLoafPLoP 2018 possible!!
We are glad to have added your expertise to the growing corpus of patterns!
Eduardo B. Fernandez (Florida Atlantic University, USA), Hernán Astudillo (UTFSM, Chile), SugarLoafPLoP 2018 Program Co-Chairs
Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP®) Conference Series has been organized since 1994 as a premier event for researchers, educators, and professionals to share, learn, and explore the potential of patterns and pattern languages.
Preliminary versions of these papers were workshopped at the Latin-American Edition of PLoP Conference Series (SugarLoafPLoP) '18, November 20 - 23, 2018, in Valparaiso, Chile. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers, or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission. Copyright is held by the authors.
Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP) conference is a place for pattern authors to have their pattern languages reviewed by fellow authors. The purpose of PLoP is to promote the development of pattern languages, primarily about aspects of software, including design and programming, software architecture, user interface design, domain modeling, and software process. SugarLoafPLoP is the PLoP conference of the Latin-American community.
SugarLoafPLoP 2018 was held in Valparaíso, Chile, November 20th-23rd, 2018.
We invited contributions from practitioners and researchers on the following:
- Pattern Papers – short papers containing one or more patterns; or longer papers containing pattern languages.
- Papers on Applying Patterns – regular papers that explore the use and application of patterns, such as using patterns in industry and academia, tools for using patterns, evaluation of productivity when using patterns, teaching and consulting with patterns, and so on.
PLoP is different from other conferences. It is run in the "writers' workshop" style, as described in Richard Gabriel's book, Writers’ Workshops and the Work of Making Things. Before the conference, authors interact with a "shepherd" who helps them improve their paper to make it as ready for PLoP as possible. A program committee reviews the papers for final acceptance after they have gone through the shepherding process. The writers' workshops provide more feedback, and so authors revise their papers again after SugarLoafPLoP. The papers here are the version produced by authors after PLoP, not the ones reviewed at SugarLoafPLoP.
This edition of SugarLoafPLoP had a bootcamp and some agile-related workshops prior to the conference. The bootcamp was a training and mentoring experience where participants were immersed in patterns and emerged with an enlarged perspective, their first pattern, and an ability to get more out of the SugarLoafPLoP conference. The following is a list of the workshops presented prior to SugarLoafPLoP.
- Agile Software Design Techniques by Eduardo Guerra
- Scrum Patterns by Joseph Yoder and Ademar Aguiar
- Being Agile at Quality: Values, Practices, and Patterns by Joseph Yoder
At the SugarLoafPLoP '2018 conference, all participants enjoyed keynotes from thought leaders of the patterns community. Following is the list of invited talks.
- Abstract security patterns for requirements specification and analysis of secure systems by Eduardo B. Fernandez
- Bringing Liveness to Design Patterns: a way, a roadmap, a trail, a point by Ademar Aguiar
- Being Agile About Architecture: Values, Practices, and Patterns by Joseph Yoder
- Visualizing and assessing trade-offs among patterns by Hernán Astudillo
- Patterns for adopting software analytics in small and medium size agile teams by Eduardo Guerra
Writers’ workshops help the pattern community to improve their patterns and pattern languages. These workshops are the primary focus at PLoP conferences, and in them we discuss accepted papers. Below is the list of papers that were work-shopped at SugarLoafPLoP 2018 and included in these proceedings.
The following are the workshop groups, the chairs, and papers presented at SugarLoafPLoP.
The SugarLoafPLoP Conference would not be a success without the volunteer help of the shepherds and program committee members. The shepherds devote hours of their time to helping authors improve their papers pre-conference. The program committee members help organize the conference, handle requests, and communicate with attendees. We would like to thank all those who helped make SugarLoafPLoP 2018 a complete success.
| General Chair | Raúl Monge (UTFSM, Chile) |
|---|---|
| Program Chairs |
Eduardo B. Fernandez (Florida Atlantic University, USA) Hernán Astudillo (UTFSM, Chile) |
| Website & Local Organization | Paulina Silva (UTFSM, Chile) |
| Proceedings Chairs |
Eduardo B. Fernandez (Florida Atlantic University, USA) Joseph Yoder The Refactory Inc., USA |
| Bootcamp | Joseph Yoder The Refactory Inc., USA |
| Steering Committee |
Joseph Yoder The Refactory Inc., USA Fabio Kon (CCSL-IME-USP) Eduardo Guerra (INPE, Brazil) |