Marc Roper is general chair of the engagingly-titled TAIC PART conference. TAIC PART stands for Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference – Practice and Reearch Techniques and aims to encourage close collaboration between academics and industrialists working on the the problems of software testing. The conference is held in Cumberland Lodge in Windsor and has the atmosphere of a retreat, typically making for a very productive workshop. For more details of the event see http://www2008.taicpart.org/
Archive for June, 2008
Marc Roper organised the first TestBench workshop at the ICST conference in Lillehammer this April. The aim of the workshop is to develop a set of benchmarking systems and tools for the empirical evaluation of software testing strategies. Further details of the workshop can be found at http://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/~marc/TESTBENCH08/
Inah’s work has been mentioned in the current issue of Research Matters, available in full here.
New Model Supports Global Software Engineering
Researchers in Strathclyde’s Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) have developed an innovative new model to improve communication between software engineers working collaboratively from across the globe.
As with many other modern industries, software engineering is a global enterprise, but that globalisation introduces a challenge – how can developers ensure that they have up-to-date and shared understanding when working on a joint project across time zones?
Researchers in CIS have developed a new model based on monitoring the core interactions that take place during software development, such as the creation, deletion, updating and viewing of software project artefacts. These interactions are captured automatically, and the model then provides real-time relevance cues about the tasks, engineers and artefacts within the global shared collaboration space.
The team has already evaluated the model with a project class of advanced students, the results of which highlighted its feasibility and effectiveness. The group is now testing the model on a global engineering project spanning Russia, Finland and Ireland. Researchers are also keen to trial the model on projects associated with the University.