We welcome the Software Center partners to the next Product data Management (PdM) community workshop on the topic of business agility. WORKSHOP FOCUS In this workshop, we: Discuss the current ways-of-working in the participant companies with regards to the different technologies involved in a system (i.e. mechanics – electronics – software – data – AI). In this discussion, we explore the level of agility for each technology and to what
Welcome to the workshop about KPIs and metrics, organized within the Software Center community. The goal of the workshop is to exchange good practices about KPIs and address topics around: Which KPIs and metrics have been found to work well, What the most common communication challenges are when communicating KPIs/metrics, How to design a well-working system for working with KPIs, and How to make KPIs that drive the company's development
We are organizing a knowledge exchange workshop around OTA: Agenda: 13:00-13:15 Opening, setting the scene, round of introductions 13:15-13:30 Company presentation Volvo Cars 13:30-13:45 Company presentation AB Volvo 13:45-14:00 Company presentation Siemens 14:00-14:15 Company presentation Grundfos 14:15-14:30 Coffee break 14:30-14:45 Identification of key topics for deep dives 14:45-15:30 Discussion on each of the key topics 15:30-16:00 Reflection, agreement on next steps, closing If you have any questions or remarks, please
Most welcome to a workshop on ’Data pricing’ which we run as part of the PdM community workshop series. Location: Hybrid event (On-site at Lindholmen and online using Microsoft Teams) Background: Often, data is described as the “new oil” and very recently it was described as an “anti-commodity” in a presentation highlighting the potential of data to reshape and redefine business models and revenue streams. For companies, there are a number
Title: Multi-factor Approach for Flaky Test Detection and Automated Root Cause Analysis Speaker: Azeem Ahmad, Linköping University Abstract: Re-running test cases is the most popular and adopted approach to detect flaky test in large scale industries. Re-running is costly because it consumes a lot of computing power. Google uses 2-16% of its testing budget just to re-run flaky tests. Re-running is unreliable because it is hard to determine the number
Welcome to a lunch seminar arranged by the Continuous Architecture theme: "Sorry, there is no digital transformation without software sustainability” Speakers: Patricia Lago and Birgit Penzenstadler This talk presents a brief overview of the results of the first sprint of the Sustainability Analysis project and gives insights into the ongoing sprint from our partnership with Jeppesen-Boeing which focuses on Design Decision Maps and Sustainability Goals as a basis for a
Deadline for NEW project proposals, for Sprint 20
You are all very welcome to attend the Licentiate seminar of Robbert Jongeling, where he will present his licentiate thesis based on his work in the Software Center project #35, Managing inconsistent development artefacts Title: Advancing continuous model-based development in industry When: 13.30, November 20, 2020 Where: Zoom (link below) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Join Zoom
Abstract Company-wise measurement programs are socio-technological systems, which combine social aspects of what, when and where to measure with technical aspects of how to measure. These programs are usually difficult to establish as utilizing the measurement information in decision-making is more difficult than it seems. Speaker Ola Söder, Expert Engineer from Axis Communications - presents the experiences from establishing a modern measurement program in close collaboration with Ericsson and Software
Deadline Sprint 20 project proposals, continued projects
This lunch seminar is hosted by Software Center Theme 4: ‘Customer Data and Ecosystem Driven Development’. Our speaker is Helena H. Olsson from Malmö University. Towards Business Agility 2.0 Business agility is critical for companies across domains. It involves the ability to quickly respond to market dynamics and to emerging technologies. While business agility has predominantly been associated with the software industry it is rapidly becoming key for companies in
In Software Center, companies and universities work together to accelerate the adoption of novel approaches to software engineering. The reporting workshop takes place twice a year, in June and December. This one day event aims at sharing results from research and cooperation within Software Center. The agenda ranges from key note presentations to in-depth sessions for themes and projects. The cooperation between academia and companies in Software Center creates the
Task force meeting for planning sprint 20; evaluation of project proposals.
Steering committee meeting
Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly popular within companies across domains due to the success of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) technologies. For companies across domains, the end-to-end process of developing, deploying and successfully adopting ML/DL models in operation introduces several challenges related to the design, the evolution and the scaling of these models. For example, access and availability of data is often challenging and activities such as
Welcome to the last brown-bag seminar of 2020! Title: Exploring the cognitive processes used by testers Abstract: In theme one Eduard Paul Enoiu from Mälardalen University has been working towards a cognitive model of software testing based on how problem solving is conceptualized in cognitive psychology. This approach instantiates a general problem solving process for the specific problem of creating test cases in automated testing. A preliminary study led to
Title: "For a few dollars more... we forgot our process" Speaker: Antonio Martini Description: Process improvement might be down-prioritized exactly like software quality. Besides the well-known Technical Debt, we should also pay attention to possibly dangerous Process Debt. In this talk I'll introduce the concept and share a few interesting findings for the first investigation with the software center companies. Link to the recorded presentation >>
The mobile networks are playing a central role in our society by serving close to 8 billion subscriptions worldwide. These networks are parts of national critical infrastructure in many countries. Security is an important aspect for these networks where a minor interruption may result in major impacts on individuals, governments, and organizations. Security standards are one of the existing approaches to protect mobile networks and their users through commonly agreed,
Most welcome to the sprint 20 kick-off workshop for project 5 (‘Accelerating Digitalization Through Data’) and project 9 (‘Strategic Ecosystem Driven R&D Management’). In both projects, we have had very rewarding collaborations and a number of different research activities related to digital transformation and the implications of this. As two primary topics of interest, we explored digital business models and data monetization. In addition, we complemented our work on value
Link to the meeting in MS Teams Most welcome to the first sprint 20 PdM community workshop that we organize January 28th, 13:00 – 15:00. The topic of this workshop is ‘Business Agility 2.0’. The topic of business agility received an amazing interest during sprint 19 and with a large number of participants both in the PdM workshop we organized (October 9th) as well as in the Brown Bag seminar
Presenter: Hongyi Zhang, PhD student, Chalmers Federated Learning is an improved Machine Learning approach which enables edge devices to collaboratively learn a shared machine learning model. The data exchanged between the edge and central server are no longer user data but the updated model weights. Furthermore, as this model training method is distributed, there are chances to make the model become smarter and adapt to their environment. (For example, devices
As test suites grow larger and more complex, the time and resources required to execute the test suite also grows accordingly. This is particularly true for companies developing diverse product lines, who must execute portions of the test suite on compatible hardware units with the features required by those test cases. We have recently begun to explore the topic of how to efficiently parallelize the execution of test cases across
Title: “There, but what about Back Again? – Propagating manual modifications from generated code to the design model” Speaker: Robbert Jongeling, MDH Abstract: In one of its forms, model-based development brings the benefit of complete code generation from design models. The generated code may be subject to manual changes for several reasons, such as fixing errors after code-level testing, or adjusting the code for different variants of targeted hardware. As
Most welcome to next week’s Brown Bag seminar (March 1st) hosted by Software Center theme 4: ‘Customer Data and Ecosystem Driven Development’. Our speaker is Helena H. Olsson, Malmö University. Title: “Bird, fish or in between: Value modeling as a technique to help you align your business KPIs” Abstract: Data driven and experimental development practices provide effective means for companies to adopt a customer and market-centric way-of-working. In online
Dear Software Center members, You’re invited to the Software Center Paper Readers’ Club! Once a month we read an interesting Software Engineering paper together. We reflect and discuss offline, and then meet over Teams for a live discussion. Each session is moderated by one person, who also gives a quick introduction and summary of the paper. You are welcome to read and discuss offline without attending the Teams meeting. You
You are very welcome to the March 8 brownbag seminar organized by the AI engineering theme in Software Center. This time our speaker is Hugo Sica de Andrade. Abstract: The requirements for performance continue to increase in computer systems across several domains. Particularly in artificial intelligence applications, several workloads require large amounts of memory, parallel computing, and low-precision computation. One of the most prominent ways of fulfilling these performance requirements
Software systems are typically divided into production code and test-related code, which have been held to different standards w.r.t. enforcing their respective quality. In recent years, test code quality issues have gained traction, for instance in their relationship to test flakiness. During discussions with industry, despite access to several types of static analysis tools, these are not generally applied to tests with regularity. In this ongoing work, we investigate a
Speaker: Antonio Cicchetti, Mälardalen University Description: SysML is a language devoted to system modelling, suitable for tackling the challenges of modern industrial systems development. Currently, a new version is about to be standardized, SysML v2. This new version contains a lot of relevant features, but required a complete redesign with respect to previous versions. In this presentation we introduce some key novelties of SysML v2 and then discuss what users
Theme 3 (Metrics) invites to the next brown bag seminar about the machine learning-related topics. This week we have Khaled Al-Sabbagh presenting his work on the reduction of class noise. Machine learning models have been increasingly used to support decision making in software engineering tasks. One example of its application is the optimization of test case selection in continuous integration. Among the challenges that hinders the application of machine learning
From operational data to business insights: It’s as much about mindset as it is about data Speaker: Iris Figalist (works as a Platform & Data Architect at Siemens, Munich and is also an industrial PhD student. Abstract: “It’s all about data” has become a common saying to strengthen the power it has in today’s world. Many software-intensive companies have started to collect operational data of their products deployed in production.
The project 18 team would like to invite you for the following cross company workshop. Your participation is highly appreciated. Agenda: Introduction & welcome (Kristian Sandahl) Project background and work in progress (Azeem) Company’s demo/paper mockups for visualizing the top 5 information needs . Discussion about demos and challenges faced in data visualization together with best practices within participants’ companies. The application of virtual reality (VR) tools and techniques in
The Software Center publication “Efficient and Effective Exploratory Testing of Large-Scale Software Systems” has been selected as one of ten papers for the Journal of Software and Systems “JSS Happy Hour” event in April. The papers are presented in a short video, and discussed by expert panelists. According to the Editor-in-Chiefs, the paper was selected “due to its high download statistics, its topic, and its overall quality”. The event is
Data Labeling: Industrial Challenges and Mitigation Strategies Labels are a prerequisite to perform supervised machine learning. However, in industrial contexts, data is often incomplete because labels are missing partially or entirely. Even if there exist manual, semi-automatic, and automatic techniques, such as crowdsourcing, active-learning (AL), and semi-supervised learning (SSL), we have seen that AL and SSL are rarely implemented due to lack of knowledge of their existence. Furthermore, labeling instances
With this invite, we want to welcome you to the second workshop in a series of three this sprint – on the topic of ‘Business Agility 2.0’. Please help us share this invite with any colleagues that you think would be interested in joining. After a first workshop on the business model dimension, we focus our upcoming meeting on the ‘system architecture/platform/R&D ways-of-working’ dimension of business agility. A detailed agenda
Most welcome to the next Brown Bag Seminar, hosted by Theme 1 (“Continuous Delivery”): Speaker: Daniel Ståhl We have all read the books, watched the movies and listened to the talks telling us how to succeed at continuous integration, continuous delivery and all things continuous. By all rights, this would seem to be a solved problem – and yet… In this brown bag seminar we turn the tables on the
In the context of project #43 on Process Debt, we are organizing a series of cross-company workshops led by Software Center companies. In this one, Grundfos will share their case on “improving the business value of process” and will be followed by a cross-company discussion. You are kindly invited to participate if interested! Also, feel free to invite any colleague who could be interested as well. Title Improving the business
Title: Analyzing software code using artificial neural networks Speaker: Abu Naser Masud, Senior Lecturer, MDH Description: Analyzing software code reveals many important aspects of the software such as bugs, security vulnerabilities, API recommendation, code similarity, code quality, etc. The dominant code analysis techniques include static and dynamic program analyses. However, artificial neural network (ANN) based source code analysis is a rising trend for the analysis of software. In this talk,
Software Center lunch seminar organized by Theme 3, Metrics: Title: Understanding Metrics Team-Stakeholder Communication Abstract: In our study, we explore challenges in communication between metrics teams and stakeholders in agile metrics service delivery. Drawing on interviews and interactive workshops with team members and stakeholders at two different Swedish software development organizations, we identify interrelated challenges such as aligning expectations, prioritizing demands, providing regular feedback, and maintaining continuous dialogue, which impede
’Collaborative Traceability — Nine practices and why they (don’t) work’ Most welcome to the next Software Center Brown Bag seminar on May 17th. It is hosted by theme 4 (‘Customer Data and Ecosystem Driven Development’) and our speaker is Jan-Philipp Steghöfer, Chalmers/University of Gothenburg. Abstract: Traceability information connects the artifacts created in a development process and allows, i.a., analysing the impact of changes, showing that all requirements are tested, and
This is an invite for a follow-up workshop on ‘Business Agility 2.0: The system architecture and platform dimensions’. The reason for a ‘follow-up’ workshop, is an agreement made during the workshop we organized on April 21st on the similar topics. The workshop received great attendance we had very good and interesting presentations and discussions. However, we were not able to cover all the items on the agenda. The request from