LUCAS Test Academy 2004/2005

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Lucas Test Academy is a forum for current and upcoming software test and quality managers. During an 8 months part time program experienced practitioners and Lucas researchers have seminars, evaluations, and discussions on topics related to software verification and validation and software quality management.

Quantitative Quality Management
A red thread in the test academy is to derive quantitative decision support for quality management. The participants will throughout the academy sessions collect and analyze defect and time data from their own organizations, and thereby achieve decision support for quality management. The approach includes analytical and simulation modeling.

Advantages for participating companies

• A practical and tailored program for educating their test and quality managers
• A tailored simulaton model over the V&V-process
• Argument for attracting talented people
• A systematic way of co-operating with Lucas
• Benchmarking of V&V-processes Advantages for Lucas research
• A systematic way of co-operating with companies
• Generate ideas for research
• A framework for research with companies on architecture-related topics

The LUCAS Test Academy is given as a Ph.D. course A typical 8 month program consists of 6 sessions, each 2 days off site. The Lucas Test Academy is organized as a commissioned education. The participants receive 4 points.

Sessions

1: V&V overview

• Definitions, terminology
  • unit, integration, system, acceptance
  • requirement based testing
• Test levels and techniques
• Inspection types and techniques

2: Strategies and organisation

• Test organisations
• Test strategies
  • test driven design
  • bottom-up/top-down

3: Test management

• Test planning
• Management
  • metrics
  • simulations
• Maturity models

4: Test automation

• Test automation
  • return on investment
• Test tools and languages
  • test frameworks
  • test management tools
  • TTCN
  • MaTeLo

5: Test evaluation

• Empirical evaluation
  • test methods
  • inspection methods

6: Verification of characteristics

• Dependability
• Experiment planning
• Scheduling
• Model checking
• Safety verification

Organisation

Participation - companies

LUCAS Gold members:

• Max 6 participants per year
• Participant in steering group selecting topics
• Strong influence on case studies

LUCAS Silver members:

• Max 2 participants per year

LUCAS Bronze members:

• Max 1 participants per year

Other companies:

• Participation at the cost of 22 500 SEK (2004/2005) per participant

Extracts from some sessions are presented as open Lucas seminars Steering group

LUCAS member representatives: Henrik Cosmo, SonyEricsson, Anders Levin, ABB, and Christina Lindhquist, Telelogic

Lucas steering: Per Runeson and Görel Hedin Contact Url: http://www.lucas.lth.se/lta/ Mail: lucas-info@cs.lth.se

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Last update: Friday, 19-Nov-2004 13:32:02 CET