Research Areas

We are especially interested in following areas of Software Engineering:

• software architectures
  

  • documenting architectural knowledge,

  • architecture evaluation methods,

• requirements engineering

  • use cases - elicitation, documentation, quality assurance (including automatic reviews),

  • non-functional requirements - elicitation and documentation,

• software testing

  • acceptance testing - test scripts generation based on use cases and screen sketches,

• software quality

  • quality management systems and software process improvement tools - ISO 9000, CMMI,

  • quality of code - refactoring, code metrics, bad-smells,

• project management

  • software development methodologies - based on research and analysis of existing methods like PRINCE2, RUP, XP the new methodology has been developed, which is called XPrince,

  • software cost estimation - we are working on methods for size and effort estimation based on functional requirements, architectural knowledge and non-functional requirements.

We are collaborating with software development companies within the XPrince Consortium in order to improve the XPrince methodology.