Bruno Laguë, Bell Canada
Bell Canada contributed to the creation of the Consortium for Software
Engineering Research in 1996, and defined a challenging project with
the University of Montréal aiming at identifying which properties
are desirable and undesirable for the maintainability of Object Oriented
Software. Over the last 3 years, the research teams in the University
of Montréal and in Bell worked the project goals together. In
general, the university showed leadership in proposing innovative approaches
for solving our industrial needs in software analysis, while Bell's team
contributed in defining and executing empirical studies for verifying
the applicability and appropriateness of the new approaches in an industrial
context.
Being under the CSER umbrella, this project benefited from a significant
financial leverage due to the 2-to-1 matching contribution from the NSERC.
But even more importantly, we see the CSER as a catalytic environment
for doing industry/university research from the regular conference-like
meetings of the CSER members. A first benefit of these meetings it that
it allowed the numerous research teams to share their results, and, just
as importantly, their needs. For example, this is over the course of
these interactions that the research teams identified common needs, and
where Bell researchers realized that by extending its parsing technology,
it may resolve the parsing issue faced by all teams requiring basic source
code facts. A second benefit is that the work progress reported during
these meetings is revised by a technical committee. These regular technical
reviews ensure that the project pace is maintained, and that the work
being done within each project remains at a state-of-the-art level.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that Bell found the experiment so positive
that not only do we support the continuation of our current project for
another three years, but we also submitted another of our university
projects for inclusion in the CSER."
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Steve Lyon, Manager Software Development, Mitel
We are delighted with the close ties developed between Mitel and the university
community under the CSER umbrella. The research is directed towards problems
we identified as being important to our software design productivity and design
quality. The result is that tools from this project are already in use in our
development group helping us to introduce new software designers into our design
teams much more rapidly than before.
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