Object-based software architectures - ROOSA
The ROOSA research group studies software architectures and the object-based forms, and develops methods and tools for architecture-based software engineering. Its main research areas are the management of object-based application frameworks, evaluating software architectures on the basis of metrics and design models, and testing software product families on the basis of their architecture and components. The group has developed the JavaFrames tool for developing and managing application frameworks, the Maisa tool for evaluating architectures and the Rita tool for testing product families.
The research group has branched out into empirical software research as its new focus area. This entails studying how different software processes, methods and tools function in software engineering projects with the help of various testing arrangements. At the beginning of the research, software engineering projects at the department are used as the basis for testing.
In 2005, the group has focused on finalising the JavaFrames and Rita tools. The Rita tool has been developed in cooperation with the European ITEA project FAMILIES, which ended in summer 2005. At the same time, the research into architecture-based testing and the development of the Rita tool ended for now in the ROOSA project group. The development of the JavaFrames tool has continued in 2005 as part of the research for a doctoral thesis, for which printing permission was granted in 2005.
Contact persons: Professors Jukka Paakki and Inkeri Verkamo
Homepage: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/research/roosa/
Publications
Verkamo A.I.
Software Performance. Proceedings of the Finnish Data Processing Week 2003, Petrozavodsk , Russia , 2005, 89-95.
Verkamo A.I. & Saura A.
Using Personal Software Process Exercises to Teach Process Measurement. In: Proceedings of SEUH 9, Software Engineering im Unterricht der Hochschulen. Aachen , Germany , 2005, 105-113.
Verkamo A.I. & Taina J. & Bogoyavlenskiy Y. & Korzun D. & Tuohiniemi T.
Distributed Cross-Cultural Student Software Project: A Case Study. In: Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, Ottawa , Canada , 2005, 207-214.
Projects
- FAMILIES
- SERIOUS