INES – National Institute of Science and Technology for Software Engineering

INES at ICTSS 2010

The INES project will be present in the 22^nd IFIP International Conference on Testing Software and Systems with the following short papers: 1) Test Suite Reduction in Good Order: Comparing Heuristics from a New Viewpoint, from A. Bertolino, E. Cartaxo, P. Machado, E. Marchetti and J. Ouriques; 2) Automating Test Case Execution for Real-Time Embedded Systems, from A. Q. Macedo, W. L. Andrade, D. Rodrigues and P. Machado, and 3) Automating Inspection of Design Models Guided by Test Cases, from A. Rocha, P. Machado and F. Ramalho. The papers are part of the following projects:  “Test Generation, Selection, Prioritization and Processing Product Lines” (in portuguese, Linhas de Produtos de Geração, Seleção, Priorização e Processamento de Testes) and “Combining Formal Methods and Testing Techniques in the Construction of Embedded Real Time Systems” (in portuguese, Combinando Técnicas de Métodos Formais e Teste na Construção de Sistemas Embarcados de Tempo Real).

ICTSS, which merges TestCom and FATES, is a forum for researchers, developers, testers, and users to review, discuss, and learn about new approaches, concepts, theories, methodologies, tools, and experiences in the field of testing of general software and systems.

INES at ACM-SIGDOC 2010

The INES project will be present in the 28th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (ACM-SIGDOC 2010) with the regular paper “The importance of Documentation, Design and Reuse in Risk Management for SPL“, from Luanna Lopes Lobato, Pádraig O’Leary, Eduardo Santana de Almeida and Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira.
The paper 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.
SIGDOC focuses on the design of communication as it is taught, practiced, researched, and conceptualized in various fields, including technical communication, software engineering, information architecture, and usability, etc, emphasizing the potentials, practices, and problems of multiple kinds of communication technologies, such as Web applications, user interfaces, and online and print documentation.

INES sponsors Agile Tour Recife and Agilidade na Prática

On October 26th there will take place in Recife the Agile Tour Recife and Agilidade na Prática, an Agile development event. INES is a Platinum sponsor of the event. More details at http://www.agilidadenapratica.com.br

UFS is acquiring books

The project “Dristibuted Development oriented to Software Product Line” is acquiring books to support the research activities at UFS. These books are related to the activity of applying clustering techniques to improve the efficiency of data recovery in a distributed repository of software components.

UFS Researcher at CBSOFT 2010

INES researcher Marcos Dósea from the project “Software Productivity Laboratory Network”  will attend the 1st Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice (CBSoft), from September 27th through October 1st. The main purpose is to make new contacts and even establish new collaborations.

INES researchers release a new Book

INES researchers members from 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, released a new book.

The book: The Software Engineering Career: Principles, Concepts and Guidelines, in portuguese, A Carreira de Pesquisador em Engenharia de Software: Princípios, Conceitos e Direções presents important issues for  young researchers such as:

– How to define a research agenda?

– How to get funding?

– How to deal with ethics issues in computer science and software engineering?

– How to advise undergraduate and graduate students?

– How to start and keep a good networking?

The book organized by Eduardo Almeida and Paulo Cesar Masiero was wrote by well-known software engineering researchers such as: Carlos José Pereira de Lucena (PUC-Rio), José Palazzo Moreira de Oliveira (UFRGS), Daltro José Nunes (UFRGS), Carla Alessandra Lima Reis (UFPA), Rodrigo Quites Reis (UFPA), Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite (PUC-Rio), Itana Maria de Souza Gimenes (UEM), Alessandro Garcia (PUC-Rio), Uirá Kulesza (UFRN), Fernanda Alencar (UFPE), Jaelson Castro (UFPE), Alexandre Alvaro (UFSCar-Sorocaba) and Daniel Lucrédio (UFSCar).

The book will be releasable in the Workshop on Guidelines for Young Researchers in Software Engineering which will be a co-located event with CBSoft.

INES at two internacional conferences on Information Integration on the Web

INES researcher has two papers accepted for presentation in conferences about Information Integration.

The first one entitled “A Context-based Schema Integration Process Applied to Healthcare Data Sources” will be presented in the 3rd International Workshop on Ambient Data Integration (ADI 2010) that will happen along with the OnTheMove Conferences in Crete, Greece, in October 25-28.

The second one, entitled “PSemRef: Personalized Query Reformulation based on User Preferences”, will be at the 12th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2010) in Paris, France, in November, 8-10.

Both conferences and associated workshops have a very interesting program and it will be an opportunity to see the state of the art from different domains as Information Integration, Ontologies, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, among others. Tutorials and important invited speakers in the area will be major moments in the evenements. Besides, being at both conferences 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”.

Papers technical information:

BELIAN, R. and SALGADO, A.C. “A Context-based Schema Integration Process Applied to Healthcare Data Sources”. In: Proc. of the 3rd International Workshop on Ambient Data Integration (ADI 2010). Crete, Greece.

NEVES, T. A., SOUZA, D. and SALGADO, A.C. “PSemRef: Personalized Query Reformulation based on User Preferences”. In: Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services. Paris, France.

INES will be at Ágiles 2010

INES at International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT)

INES researchers members from 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 has an accepted paper at International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT) published by Springer.

Publication details: Liana B. Lisboa, Vinicius Garcia, Eduardo Almeida, Silvio Meira, ToolDAy – A Tool for Domain Analysis, International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT).