INES – National Institute of Science and Technology for Software Engineering

INES at ICSSP (2012)

The paper “Risk Management in Software Product Lines: An Industrial Case Study” was accepted for publication at the International Conference on Software and Systems Process (ICSSP) in Zurich. 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.

Lobato, L. L.; Neto, P. A. M. S.; Machado, I.; Almeida, E. S.; Meira, S. R. L. Risk Management in Software Product Lines: An Industrial Case Study, International Conference on Software and Systems Process (ICSSP), Zurich, 2012

INES acquires Notebook

The project “Program Refactoring for Migration of Data Structures” is acquiring a notebook to support experiments of researchers at UFS. The project is buying a Sony Vaio Intel Core i5.

Office supplies acquisition

The projects “Evolution and Refactoring tools” and “Software Productivity Laboratory Network” are acquiring consumer goods (office supplies) to support their research activities at UFS.

New INES project: Quality Assessement for Open Source Software

The goal of this project is to provide, based on the body of knowledge of Software Engineering, an evaluation service for free software projects. This service will comprise product and process evaluation, and may be useful for organizations or corporate environments in the process of adoption of free software as part of their development environment for software or IT infrastructure. Partners: UFBA, UFCG, UFRN, UEFS and PUC-Rio.

Read more: http://amigos.ines.org.br/ines/viewProject.do?projectId=32

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O objetivo deste projeto é o de oferecer, com base no corpo de conhecimento da Engenharia de Software, um serviço de avaliação de projetos de software livre. Este serviço agregará avaliação de produto e de processo, e podendo ser útil para organizações ou ambientes corporativos em processo de adoção de software livre como parte do seu ambiente de desenvolvimento de software ou de sua infraestrutura de TI. Participantes: UFBA, UFCG, UFRN, UEFS and PUC-Rio.

Informações adicionais : http://amigos.ines.org.br/ines/viewProject.do?projectId=32

open source software, quality assessment

New project: Models, Techniques and Tools for Software Evolution – New Challenges

New INES project (2nd round) involves researchers from UFBA, UFCG, UFRN, UEFS and PUC-Rio.

The project “Models, Techniques and Tools for Software Evolution: New Challenges“ has as its starting point the main goal of the previous INES project (“Models, Techniques and Tools for Software Evolution“/2009-2011) — to improve our understanding of the nature software processes and their evolution,  — and also its results — a set of models, techniques and tools to help integrate development activities in the software life cycle.

Read more: http://amigos.ines.org.br/ines/viewProjectNarrative.do?narrativeId=98

INES researcher awarded with IBM Ph.D. Fellowship

The Ph.D. Student Ivan Machado (UFBA), member from the INES 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, was awarded with the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards.

According to IBM “The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards Program is an intensely competitive worldwide program, which honors exceptional Ph.D. students who have an interest in solving problems that are important to IBM and fundamental to innovation in many academic disciplines and areas of study.”

INES at ESELAW (2012)

The paper “A Preliminary Study on the Effects of Working with a Testing Process in Software Product Lines Projects” was accepted for publication at the 9th Experimental Software Engineering Latin American Workshop (ESELAW). 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.

More details about the publication:  Machado, I.; Almeida, E. S.; Gomes, G.; Neto, P. A. M. S.; Novais, R.; Neto, M. G. M. A Preliminary Study on the Effects of Working with a Testing Process in Software Product Lines Projects, 9th Experimental Software Engineering Latin American Workshop (ESELAW), Argentina, 2012

INES at CSEE&T 2012

The paper “Teaching Globally Distributed Software Development: An Experience Report” was accepted for publication at the IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T). 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.

More details about the publication:  Weiss, D.; Faulk, S.; Almeida, E. S.; Lima, C.; Rui, Z.; Dali, L., Ying, J.; Young, M.; Yu, L.Teaching Globally Distributed Software Development: An Experience Report, 25th IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), China, 2012

INES receives 40 scholarships from the CNPq’s Science without Borders Program to send researchers abroad

CNPq’s Science without Borders program (Programa Ciência Sem Fronteiras – CsF ) approved 40 scholarships to send researchers abroad. Among those are Undergraduate, PhD and sabbatical/post-doc scholarships.

Science without Borders is a large-scale nationwide scholarship program primarily funded by the Brazilian federal government. The program seeks to strengthen and expand the initiatives of science and technology, innovation and competitiveness through international mobility of undergraduate and graduate students and researchers. The program is a joint effort of the Ministry of Education (MEC) and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT) through their respective funding agencies – CAPES and CNPq.

INES at CEC/WCCI

INES researchers Pedro Santos Neto and Ricardo Britto, members of the EASII Lab (UFPI), have one paper accepted for publication and presentation at the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, as part of the 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (IEEE WCCI), to be held on June 10-15, 2012, at Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, Australia.

The paper entitled “A Hybrid Approach to Solve the Agile Team Allocation Problem” describes how to use a KSA (Knowledge, Skill, Ability) evaluation to allocate an agile team, using a Fuzzy System together with a Metaheuristic approach. The work has a practical evaluation of the technique made in conjunction with a software house partner in the project, called Infoway.