INES – National Institute of Science and Technology for Software Engineering

The Software Productivity Laboratory Network hires five scientific initiation scholarship for the Training Program in Software Testing

The Software Productivity Laboratory Network hires 5 (five) Scientific Initiation scholarship to attend the Training Program in Software Testing. Students will work on developing activities related to area of Software Testing under the guidance of Professor Paulo Borba. The activities will be held on the premises of CIn/UFPE, through practice on real projects, involving the key concepts and processes of software testing, planning, design, implementation, analysis of test results, and automation tools to support the testing process.

The Software Productivity Laboratory Network announces the result of selection for the Training Program in Software Testing

The Software Productivity Laboratory Network selects ten (10) undergraduate students to participate in the Training Program in Software Testing. Of the 10 (ten) selected, five (5) students will be hired as fellows, and 5 (five) students will participate as a volunteer contributors of the program.

The program is designed for graduate students in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related areas. It will offer students the opportunity to experience in the practice of real projects, key concepts and processes of software testing, including planning, design, implementation, analysis of test results, and automation tools to support the testing process.

Program activities will be conducted on the facilities of CIn/UFPE, scheduled to start on November 3rd, 2009.

For more information on the outcome of the selection, click here

Context group researcher participates at the ER-2009

The International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER-2009) occurs this year, for the first time, in Brazil, in Gramado, in November, 09-12.

This is a great opportunity for researchers in the areas of Databases Systems and Software Engineering, in particular the Requirement Analysis, to take advantage of the invited talks, accepted papers and several workshops happening with the conference. From the workshops, we can highlight some of major interest for the Context Group project: Joint International workshop on Metamodels, Ontologies, Semantic Technologies, and Information Systems for the Semantic Web <#MOST-ONISW>, Conceptual Modeling in the Large <#CoMoL> and  Requirements, Intentions and Goals in Conceptual Modeling <#RIGiM>

In particular, for the INES project, subjects related to ontologies, context (more specifically personalization) and other semantic aspects will be presented and discussed throughout the conference. Tutorials and important invited speakers in the area will be major moments in the evenement.

Besides, being at the conference will be an excellent opportunity to meet people, make new contacts and even stablish new collaborations.

– Prof. Ana Carolina Salgado, UFPE, is a researcher of the project “Models, Processes and Tools for the Development of Context-Sensitive Systems”.

INES at ESELAW 2009

O INES marca presença no VI Experimental Software Engineering Latin American Workshop que será realizado de 11-13 de novembro na UFSCar, São Carlos-SP.

No evento, os membros do projeto irão apresentar o artigo A Systematic Review on Software Product Lines Scoping, de autoria de Marcela Moraes, Eduardo Almeida e Silvio Meira.

O trabalho é parte do projeto “Uma Investigação de Processos, Ferramentas e Métricas para o Desenvolvimento de Linhas de Produto de Software“, no qual uma das metas consiste no desenvolvimento de um processo de SPL e na realização de estudos empiricos.

Coordinator of the INES Project integrates the Tools Session Committee of SBES 2009

Professor Glêdson Elias da Silveira, coordinator of the project Distributed Development based on Software Product Lines, joined the Tools Session Committee of XXIII SBES (Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering). The event occurred between days 05 and 08 October 2009, in Fortaleza (CE).

On seven oral presentations were made from 12 selected tools. On day 08, the demonstration was conducted in a group of tools. Finally, on day 09 was formed a committee of four researchers for selecting the three best tools, whose authors were awarded a certificate and a souvenir of the vent with the impression of placing the awards.

Award-winning tools:

• 1st Place:

Tool: SafeRefactor – Tool for Checking Refactoring Safety (Gustavo Soares, Diego Cavalcanti, Rohit Gheyi, Tiago Massoni, Dalton Serey, Márcio Cornélio)

Ferramenta: MRES: Ferramenta para Seleção de Recursos para Tarefas de Projetos de Software via Abordagem Difusa e Multicritérios (Daniel Callegari, Felipe Foliatti, Ricardo Bastos)

• 2nd Place:

Tool: Um Conjunto de Ferramentas para Modelagem de Casos de Teste de Aceitação de Aplicações Web (Felipe Besson, Delano Medeiros Beder, Marcos Chaim)

• 3rd Place:

Tool: BAST: A Tool for Bug Report Analysis and SearchYguaratã Cavalcanti, Carlos Eduardo Cunha (UFPE), Eduardo Almeida, Silvio Meira)

INES project awarded during the Tools Session from the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

The paper BAST: A Tool for Bug Report Analysis and Search from Yguaratã Cerqueira Cavalcanti, Carlos Eduardo Albuqueruqe da Cunha, Eduardo Santana de Almeida and Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira — was awarded as the third best tool during the tools session from the SBES 2009, in Fortaleza-CE.

SBES is the main conference in the Software Engineering area in Brazil.

This activity is part of the project  “An Investigation of Methods, Processes, Tools, and Metrics for the Development of Software Product Lines (SPL)” — in portuguese, Uma Investigação de Processos, Ferramentas e Métricas para o Desenvolvimento de Linhas de Produto de Software.

INES tem artigo no IX Congresso Brasileiro de Redes Neurais

O artigo intitulado “Uma Abordagem Morfológico-Posto-Linear para a Estimativa de Custo de Desenvolvimento de Software” foi aceito como artigo completo para publicação e apresentação no IX Congresso Brasileiro de Redes Neurais / Inteligência Computacional (IX CBRN). O Congresso acontecerá em outubro, em Ouro Preto, MG, Brasil. O congresso é um dos mias importantes e tradicionais na área de redes neurais do Brasil.

O artigo propoe uma nova abordagem, baseada em técnicas provenientes da morfologia matemática aplicado a estimativa de esforço de software, mostrando que o mesmo obtem desempenho significativamente superior aos recentemente apresentados na literatura. O artigo está relacionado a uma das metas do projeto “Estimativa de esforço de projeto de software com técnicas de inteligência computacional e estatística“, coordenado pela UFRPE.

Título: Uma Abordagem Morfológico-Posto-Linear para a Estimativa de Custo de Desenvolvimento de Software

Autores: Ricardo A. Araújo, Adriano L. I. Oliveira e Sérgio C. B. Soares

Os dados da publicação são: Ricardo A. Araújo, Adriano L. I. Oliveira, Sérgio C. B. Soares. Uma Abordagem Morfológico-Posto-Linear para a Estimativa de Custo de Desenvolvimento de Software. Anais do IX Congresso Brasileiro de Redes Neurais / Inteligência Computacional (IX CBRN), 2009. Ouro Preto, MG, Brasil.

The Software Productivity Laboratory Network opens subscriptions for the Training Program in Software Testing

Subscriptions is now open for the Training Program in Software Testing of the Software Productivity Laboratory Network INES.

The program is designed for undergraduate students in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or related areas. It will offer students the opportunity to experience in the practice of real projects, key concepts and processes of software testing, including planning, design, implementation, analysis of test results, and automation tools to support the testing process.

The activities of the Training Program in Software Testing will be conducted on the facilities of CIn/UFPE, scheduled to start on November 2nd.

The program offers ten vacancies, and is free. For further information and subscriptions please visit the website Laboratory Network Productivity Software