Continuous Security Testing: a case study on integrating dynamic security testing tools in CI/CD pipelines

Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) have become a well-known practice in DevOps to ensure fast delivery of new features. This is achieved by automatically testing and releasing new software versions, e.g. multiple times per day. However, classical security management techniques cannot keep up with this quick Software...

Application of modern software engineering principles for continuous quality (CQ) management in research

Transparency of changes, automated testing of new developments against documented criteria, combination of developments from different sources and automated publication of validated results are key aspects of modern collaborative software engineering. Various infrastructures, guidelines and tools are available for continuous integration (CI) and...

Model-based software restructuring: Lessons from cleaning up COM interfaces in industrial legacy code

The high-tech industry is faced with ever growing amounts of software to be maintained and extended. To keep the associated costs under control, there is a demand for more human overview and for large-scale code restructurings. Language technology such as parsing can assist in this, but classical restructuring tools are typically not flexible...

Cost-effective industrial software rejuvenation using domain-specific models

Software maintenance consumes a significant and increasing proportion of industrial software engineering budgets, only to maintain the existing product functionality. This hinders the development of new innovative features with added value to customers. To make software development efforts more effective, legacy software needs to be rejuvenated...

Experiences with incorporating formal techniques into industrial practice

We report about experiences at Philips Healthcare with component-based development supported by formal techniques. The formal Analytical Software Design (ASD) approach of the company Verum has been incorporated into the industrial workflow. The commercial tool ASD:Suite supports both compositional verification and code generation for control...

Improving the development of instructional software: Three building-block solutions to interrelate design and production

Currently, there is a focus on authentic tasks as the driving force for learning in integrated e-learning systems. This sets new criteria for instructional software, which should become much more flexible and allow for domain modeling and pedagogical modeling. A theoretical analysis and a survey (n = 37) amongst experienced developers show that...

Evaluating meeting support tools

Many attempts are underway for developing meeting support tools, but less attention is paid to the evaluation of meetingware. This article describes the development and testing of an instrument for evaluating meeting tools. First, we specified the object of evaluation - meetings - by means of a set of input, process, and outcome factors. Then,...

The multi-dimensional nature of encoding tactile and haptic interactions: From psychophysics to design guidelines

Designers are very well aware of the multi-dimensionality of visual stimuli and extensively use dimensions such as color, form and contrast to encode information. An analogous multi-dimensionality applies to haptic and tactile stimuli. Based on the fact that the human visual system only has two receptor types (cones and rods) while the sense of...

Ergonomics of tactile and haptic interactions

The area of tactile and haptic interactions has produced a number of exemplar systems and an even greater number of research papers. The time has come to systematize the knowledge that has been gained in order to produce guidance. The Ergonomics of Tactile and Haptic Interactions symposium provides an analysis of some of the complexities of...

Evaluation plan for a cardiological multi-media workstation (I4C project)

The goal of the I4C project (Integration and Communication for the Continuity of Cardiac Care) is to build a multi-media workstation for cardiac care and to assess its impact in the clinical setting. This paper describes the technical evaluation plan for the prototype.