TRESE Group Department of Computer Science University of Twente P.O. Box 217 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands [e-mail]

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Target industryfor the TRESE Group

• TRESE GroupDepartment of Computer
  ScienceUniversity of TwenteP.O. Box 2177500 AE
  Enschede, The Netherlandstrese_at_cs.utwente.nl
• trese.cs.utwente.nl

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Table of contents
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The problems of our target industry

• Software systems are large, complex and
  generallydistributed
• embedded, parallel systems, networked systems,
  Internet-support, human interaction,
  dynamictopology, dynamic updates, etc.
• Software systems are long-lived
• product families, specialized products.

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The problems of our target industry (conted)

• Software systems are in continuous evolution
• technology evolution, market evolution,
  networkedclients, etc.
• Right balance between functional and quality
  requirs
• functionality
• robustness
• adaptability
• performance
• etc.

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The problems of our target industry (conted)

• Scalable and optimizing systems
• dynamic evolution of size
• dynamic context
• Efficient, effective and flexible software
  production
• time to market
• flexible software production
• Maintenance is an integral part of the process
• Maintenance is to be considered right from the
  begin.

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Industrial cooperation

• Student graduation thesis
• depends on the availability and quality of the
  students
• Consulting
• involved in small-large project consulting mainly
  onarchitecture audits and design

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Industrial cooperation

• Joint projects
• long-term (3-4 years) projects.
• Professional courses
• presented more than 80 professional courses.

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What canwe offer?
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Effectiveness
Effectiveness getting closer to the business
objectives
Business manager client satisfaction
Technical manager future product architecturing
Software engineer analysis design techniques
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TRESE effectiveness through thesynthesis
approach
Concerns in thesolution domain
Concerns in thebusiness domain
Solutiontechniques
BusinessProblems
problemidentification
search for asolution
specialize
verify
TechnicalProblemdefinition
Solution
verify
Concerns in thesolution
Concerns in theproblem domain
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TRESE effectiveness through theindustry-as-labor
atory approach
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Technology
Business manager features versus time
Technical manager satisfying quality demands
Software engineer technical solutions
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TRESE quality-oriented software eng.
Software development

• Architectures
• Patterns
• Frameworks

• Heuristics
• Languages
• Components

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Efficiency
Efficiency more work per unit of money
Business manager low-risk investment
Technical manager on time product development
Software engineer technology transfer
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TRESE concurrent research

• Research activities are defined in parallel to
  productdevelopment
• Research goals are initiated from the actual and
  expected demands of the future product releases
• Planned gradual integration of research results
• Explicit research exploitation plan
• Technology transfer services are provided.

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References to our research activities

• Obstacles in software developmenthttp//trese.cs
  .utwente.nl/obstacles/
• Software architecture synthesishttp//trese.cs.u
  twente.nl/architecture_synthesis/
• Industry-as-laboratory and concurrentresearchht
  tp//trese.cs.utwente.nl/target_industry/what_can_
  trese_offer.htm
• Professional courseshttp//trese.cs.utwente.nl/c
  ourses/professional_courses/
• Research on quality-oriented software
  engineeringhttp//trese.cs.utwente.nl/research/