Message from the SEET Chairs of ICSE 2019

Message from the SEET Chairs of ICSE 2019We are very pleased to welcome you to the ICSE 2019 Track on Software Engineering Education and Training (SEET).Having started over a decade ago, this track is now recognized as the premier venue for researchers and educators to meet and discuss their research on software engineering education and training.Building on this legacy, we are delighted to include a diverse and thought provoking program that we hope will stimulate educators of the next generation of software engineers.SEET's 2019 theme is "Multidisciplinary Approaches for Software Engineering Education and Training in the Digital Era".The demands on the educator are becoming increasingly complex and we believe there must be a balance between offering a range of teaching approaches and retaining quality in teaching.Authors were encouraged to submit submissions on a variety of topics, but the overall question that SEET 2019 attempts to address is "What teaching methods maintain quality, encourage students to look beyond programming concepts, are sustainable, and offer students and practitioners a rewarding experience?"To ensure a high quality program, we devoted a great deal of attention to the review process; similar to previous years, we adopted a double-blind review process.In addition, we introduced an even more structured discussion process whereby a 'discussion leader', an additional member to the three reviewers for each paper, oversaw the quality of reviews and discussions, and wrote a meta-review summarizing the paper contribution, but also clarified where the manuscript could or should be improved and reasons for the decision.We had many authors of both rejected and accepted papers commending the reviewers on the quality of their feedback.Finally, we are proud to highlight that our program committee yields an excellent diversity balance in terms of both gender and representativeness (with a mix of experienced senior researchers, excellent young talents, and professionals involved in higher education and professional training).This proceedings volume contains the 22 papers accepted for full presentations, which were selected from 74 high-quality submissions (an acceptance rate of about ~30%).Of the 22 accepted papers, 9 are full technical papers, 9 report on case studies and 4 are short papers.In addition, authors of 17 submissions were invited to present their work in the ICSE Poster Track.Eleven SEET poster submissions will present their research as part of the ICSE Poster track.However, since we felt that these authors had useful and interesting information to impart to the SEET community, we have for the first time, also invited the SEET Poster presenters to take a formal role in the SEET program.The Poster presenters will give us a snapshot of their research in the form of a short presentation, and then will join the panel at the end of each themed session.We envisage that with this increased participation both the audience and the authors will gain further insights from a rich and varied program, and a wide group of experiences.Our 33 presentations are grouped into six themed sessions -mostly practical, but also pointing to where work is still needed to inspire new research.You will find advice on, assessment in the classroom, novel approaches to teaching SE, some rigorous empirical studies in SE teaching, some take-home ideas in the form SE teaching strategies, also industryrelevant SE educational studies, and finally the focus of this year's conference, multi-disciplinary teaching in SE.We take this opportunity to thank our programme committee members for their thorough and timely reviews of the submissions and their constructive feedback.We also thank the discussion leaders for their effort in aggregating and summarising the views of all the reviewers.Their work enabled a rigorous selection of a very strong program.We would also like to thank last year's SEET chairs for providing us very helpful guidance for this year's program management, and Jo Atlee, ICSE General Chair, and other members of the ICSE organizing committee who have helped tremendously in putting this exciting program together.We hope that these proceedings will serve as a valuable reference for software engineering researchers and educators.