Programming Technologies and Software Engineering

The research agenda of the Programming Technologies and Software Engineering department is driven toward increasing productivity in software development, testing, and maintenance, and improving software quality, with an emphasis on the needs of the software services industry in a globally distributed environment. Our research uses core techniques, such as static and dynamic program analysis, model-driven development techniques, text analysis, and search and mining techniques. In addition to developing technologies that have a measurable impact on IBM, we strive for broader scientific impact by publishing our research in top programming-languages and software-engineering conferences.

Please visit the Projects tab for a description of our current research projects.

Recent Highlights

• Satish Chandra delivered the Industry keynote at ESEC/FSE 2011 (September 2011)
• Mangala Gowri Nanda co-organized the Web Quality, Security and Testing workshop at ESEC/FSE 2011 (September 2011)
• Diptikalyan Saha presented the paper titled "Fault localization for data-centric programs" at ESEC/FSE 2011 (September 2011)
• Monika Gupta presented the paper titled "Serving information needs in business process consulting" at BPM 2011 (August 2011)
• The paper titled "Outsourced, offshored software-testing practice: Vendor-side experiences" co-authored by Hina Shah (Georgia Tech), Saurabh Sinha, and Mary Jean Harrold (Georgia Tech) won the Best Paper Award at ICGSE 2011 (August 2011)
• Prof. Alex Orso (Georgia Tech) visited the PTSE department on a six-week sabbatical (July 2011)
• Satish Chandra and Saurabh Sinha co-organized the International Workshop on End-to-end Test Script Engineering at ISSTA 2011 (July 2011)