Research
Process Support Systems and Collaborative Environments
In the last decade a lot of research effort has been devoted to the
development of methodologies and technologies supporting coordination
and collaboration of distributed teams. Examples are Computer Supported
Cooperative Work (CSCW) and groupware, workflow management, and document
management technologies.
Traceability Management
Software artefact traceability is the ability to describe and follow
the life of an artefact (requirements, code, tests, models, reports,
plans, etc.) developed during the software lifecycle in both a forwards
and backwards direction (i.e., from its origins, through its development
and specification, to its subsequent deployment and use, and through all
periods of on-going refinement and iteration in any of these phases).
The two main research topics related to the traceability management are
event-based systems for traceability management and information retrieval
based methods and tools supporting the software engineer in the traceability
link recovery.
Visual Software Development Environments
Many activities regarding software development are today accomplished
by software tools that support developers in their job. A software
development environment is an integrated collection of tools that
aid these activities. The widespread use of visual systems has in
particular motivated the need for tools that aid in the design and
implementation of visual interfaces and environments. The members of
the SE@SA lab are mainly involved in the definition of methods an
tools for the specification and automatic generation of visual development
environments for different applications, such as software development
and maintenance, access policy definition and configuration, e-learning,
and virtual reality.
