From: Vadim Zaytsev Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:12:53 +0100 (CET) To: PEM Subject: [pem-list] 25 Jan 2012, 11:00, L016: Serge Demeyer, Agile Quality Assurance Dear Environmentalists, Starting from next week, the PEM Colloquium will continue to operate under my humble supervision (due to the fact that the previous organiser, Bas Basten, has recently obtained his PhD and flew away from the nest). Most of the PEM presentations will occur of Friday in L016, but there will be occasional announced deviations. One of them is next week: we will have a special guest, Serge Demeyer (Universiteit Antwerpen), invited to Amsterdam by Chris Verhoef (VU) to attend a PhD defence, after which he will pay a short visit to the CWI on Wednesday. An important part of his visit is a PEM talk about software configuration management and software quality. Date: 25 January 2012 Time: 11:00 Room: L016 (CWI) Abstract and bio: see below ——————————————————————————— Agile Quality Assurance Software is vital to our society and consequently the software engineering community is investigating means to produce reliable software. For a long, long time, reliable software was seen as software “without bugs”. Today however, reliable software has come to mean “easy to adapt” because of the constant pressure to change. As a consequence, organisations producing software must seek for a delicate balance between two opposing forces: striving for reliability and striving for agility. In the former, organisations optimise for perfection; in the latter they optimise for development speed. This talk will will investigate ways to reduce the tension between reliability and agility by exploiting so-called software configuration management systems. Today these systems are used rather passively: they monitor the past and present activities, but are seldom used to predict what is likely to happen in the future. Yet with all the data in these systems it becomes feasible to answer questions like: which modules are likely to be affected by a given change request ? where should we focus our regression test activities ? how severe is a given problem report ? who is the best person the handle a given bug report ? Bio Serge Demeyer is a professor at the University of Antwerp and the spokesperson for the ANSYMO (Antwerp System Modelling) research group. He directs a research lab investigating the theme of "Software Reengineering" (LORE - Lab On REengineering). His main research interest concerns software reengineering, more specifically the evolution of object-oriented software systems. He is an active member of the corresponding international research communities, serving in various conference organization and program committees. He has written a book entitled "Object-Oriented Reengineering" and edited a book on "Software Evolution". He also authored numerous peer reviewed articles, many of them in highly respected scientific journals. He completed his M.Sc. in 1987 and his PhD in 1996, both at the "Vrije Universiteit Brussel". After his PhD, he worked for three years in Switzerland, where he served as a technical co-ordinator of an European research project. Switzerland remains near and dear to his heart, witness the sabbatical leave during 2009-2010 at the University of Zürich in the research group SEAL. ——————————————————————————— http://event.cwi.nl/pem ——————————————————————————— Yours, Vadim. _______________________________________________ pem-list mailing list From: Vadim Zaytsev Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:27:13 +0100 (CET) To: PEM Subject: [pem-list] Reminder: tomorrow, 25 Jan 2012, at 11:00, in L016, Serge Demeyer, Agile Quality Assurance Dear Environmentalists, Let me remind you that this week's PEM Colloquium will be on Wednesday and not on Friday as most PEMs after that. Wednesday is tomorrow, and there will be a visit of Serge Demeyer from Universiteit Antwerpen to CWI, as was announced last week. His visit will be more than just a talk, he will be available before and after the PEM for informal discussions. Date: 25 January 2012 Time: 11:00 Room: L016 (CWI) Abstract and bio: see below ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Agile Quality Assurance Software is vital to our society and consequently the software engineering community is investigating means to produce reliable software. For a long, long time, reliable software was seen as software “without bugs”. Today however, reliable software has come to mean “easy to adapt” because of the constant pressure to change. As a consequence, organisations producing software must seek for a delicate balance between two opposing forces: striving for reliability and striving for agility. In the former, organisations optimise for perfection; in the latter they optimise for development speed. This talk will will investigate ways to reduce the tension between reliability and agility by exploiting so-called software configuration management systems. Today these systems are used rather passively: they monitor the past and present activities, but are seldom used to predict what is likely to happen in the future. Yet with all the data in these systems it becomes feasible to answer questions like: which modules are likely to be affected by a given change request? where should we focus our regression test activities? how severe is a given problem report? who is the best person the handle a given bug report? Bio Serge Demeyer is a professor at the University of Antwerp and the spokesperson for the ANSYMO (Antwerp System Modelling) research group. He directs a research lab investigating the theme of "Software Reengineering" (LORE - Lab On REengineering). His main research interest concerns software reengineering, more specifically the evolution of object-oriented software systems. He is an active member of the corresponding international research communities, serving in various conference organization and program committees. He has written a book entitled “Object-Oriented Reengineering” and edited a book on “Software Evolution”. He also authored numerous peer reviewed articles, many of them in highly respected scientific journals. He completed his M.Sc. in 1987 and his PhD in 1996, both at the “Vrije Universiteit Brussel”. After his PhD, he worked for three years in Switzerland, where he served as a technical co-ordinator of an European research project. Switzerland remains near and dear to his heart, witness the sabbatical leave during 2009-2010 at the University of Zürich in the research group SEAL. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://event.cwi.nl/pem ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Yours, Vadim. _______________________________________________ pem-list mailing list