INES - National Institute of Science and Technology for Software Engineering

INES hires a new master degree student

The Project “Distributed Development based on Software Product Lines” is hiring a new Master degree student to attend the activity of defining an indexing technique for software artifacts descriptions based on semi-structured data.

Tutorial on Software Architecture - Prof. Neno Medvidovic at LES @ UFBA

02.Aug.2010 - Prof. Neno Medvidovic presents a tutorial on Software Architecture at UFBA.

Prof. Nenad Medvidovic, from USC, Los Angeles, is a visiting researcher for 3 weeks at UFBA, with INES support from the project “Models, Techniques and Tools for Software Evolution”.

INES at CBSoft 2010

TaRGeT, a tool developed in the INES project Tests Generation, Selection, Prioritization and Processing Product Line was selected for presentation at the CBSOFT 2010 Tools Session, at Salvador-BA.

TaRGeT: a Model Based Product Line Testing Tool. Felype Ferreira (UFPE), Laís Neves (UFPE), Michelle Silva (UFPE) e Paulo Borba (UFPE).

INES at CBSOFT 2010 Tools Session

Three tools developed as related assets from activities of the INES project “Models, Techniques and Tools for Software Evolution” were selected for presentation at the CBSOFT 2010 Tools Session, in Salvador Bahia.

* Analizo: an Extensible Multi-Language Source Code Analysis and Visualization Toolkit, Antonio Terceiro (UFBA), Joenio Costa (UCSAL), Paulo Meirelles (USP), Joao Miranda (USP), Luiz Romario Santana Rios (UFBA), Lucianna Almeida (USP), Christina Chavez (UFBA), Fabio Kon (USP)

* Fir-Diagram: Ferramenta Baseada no Modelo FIR para Análise de Impacto de Mudanças em Interesses de Negócio, Antonio Oliveira Filho (UFBA), Fabrıcio de Freitas Cardim (FRB), Tiano Oliveira Dorea (FRB), Christina Chavez (UFBA)

* An Eclipse-Based Multi-Perspective Environment to Visualize Software Coupling, Glauco Carneiro (UFBA), Paulo Júnior (UFBA), Arleson Nunes Graduação (UFBA), Manoel Mendonça (UFBA)

Collaborator is going to visit UFS in August

Rodrigo Cursino is going to visit the group of UFS in the context of the project Software Productivity Laboratory Network from 12th to 13th August. The goal is to train the students in Exploratory Test. This training will help the students in research and development in the project activities concerning the development and use of processes and tools for testing web applications.

3rd Meeting of the Project Tests Generation, Selection, Prioritization and Processing Product Line

The students Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto, João Felipe Silva Ouriques and Augusto Queiroz de Macedo from UFCG will attend the third project’s meeting, on August 4th at Recife.

Project “Distributed Development based on Software Product Lines” hires a new master degree student

The Project “Distributed Development based on Software Product Lines” is hiring a new Master degree student to attend the activity of defining the distributed development process based on software product lines.

For more information, contact the address gledson@di.ufpb.br.

INES Researcher Participates of Lean Thinking Workshop

Teresa Maciel, INES researcher in agile software development, is going to São Paulo to participate of “Pensando Lean”, an event focused on sharing knowledge about Lean Software Development, an agile methodology based on Toyota Production System. The workshop includes a course conducted by Mary e Tom Poppendieck, authors of this agile methodology.

Further information about the event can be found in http://plean.tangu.com.br/.

INES/UFPE has FINEP Infrastructure Project Approved

FINEP has approved project INES-UFPE, which was submitted by INES and CIn-UFPE to increase the area available for research projects and students of INES and CIn-UFPE.

The title of the project is “Implantação da infraestrutura do INCT para Engenharia de Software e modernização/adequação da infraestrutura de pesquisa da Pós-Graduação do CIn/UFPE” and it received a grant of R$ 936.542,00 to improve the area available for INES and other research projects at CIn-UFPE. It was submitted to PROINFRA 1/2009, which receives resources from FNDCT/CT-Infra.

INES Project on Software Evolution has 3 papers accepted at the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

Three papers related to the project  “Models, Techniques and Tools for Software Evolution” (in Portuguese, “Modelos, Técnicas e Ferramentas para Evoluçāo de Software”) were accepted as at the Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering, event co-located with the Brazilian Conference on Software: Theory and Practice (CBSoft), 2010.

• An Empirical Study on the Structural Complexity Introduced by Core and Peripheral Developers in Free Software Projects . Antonio Terceiro,(UFBA), Luiz Romário Rios, (UFBA), Christina Chavez (UFBA)
• Identifying Code Smells with Multiple Concern Views . Glauco Carneiro, (UFBA), Marcos Silva, (PUC-RS), Leandra Mara, (PUC-Rio), Eduardo Figueiredo,(UFMG), Claudio Sant`Anna, (UFBA), Alessandro Garcia (PUC-Rio), Manoel Mendonça (UFBA)
• A Study of the Relationships between Source Code Metrics and Attractiveness in Free Software Projects . Paulo Meirelles,(IME-USP), Carlos Santos Jr.,(USP), Antonio Terceiro,(UFBA), João Miranda (USP), Christina Chavez, (UFBA)