I/UCRC: University of Texas at Dallas Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Joining S2ERC

随着软件在我们的日常生活中被越来越多和无处不在地使用，随着其复杂性和功能增长得越来越快和越来越大，随着一些操作故障的后果变得极其严重，随着生产高质量、可靠和安全软件的时间和预算不断减少，产业界和学术界需要作为一个团队共同开展合作研究，以缩小最新研究与该领域使用的实际技术之间的差距。这项计划拨款的目的是准备德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校（UTD）计算机科学系的软件测试和质量保证高级研究中心（STQA）成为S2ERC的主要大学站点之一。S2ERC是一个成熟的NSF I/UCRC安全与软件工程中心。有了来自UTD的研究人员和行业附属机构的S2ERC，可以建立一个更全面的平台，为学术界提供绝佳的机会，让他们更加了解对行业至关重要的学科领域，因为从业者会提出他们的需求。该平台还将帮助实现该拨款的另一个目标，即使STQA成为北德克萨斯地区软件测试和质量保证方面的领先研究机构。我们将重点开发先进的尖端技术，并提供方便易用的工具支持，以促进技术转让。我们将协助从业人员，无论他们以前在软件测试和质量保证方面的经验水平如何，快速地掌握必要的背景知识，并获得为他们的特定项目应用一套成本效益高的程序的能力。通过这样的努力，软件更有可能以更低的成本更有效地实现高质量。

As software is used increasingly and ubiquitously in our everyday lives, as its complexity and functionality grow faster and greater, as the consequences of some operational failures become overwhelmingly serious, as both the time and budget for producing high-quality reliable and secure software are continuously reduced, industry and academia need to work together as a team to perform cooperative research so that the gap between state-of-the-art research and state-of-practice technologies used in the field can be reduced. The objective of this planning grant is to prepare the Advanced Research Center for Software Testing and Quality Assurance (STQA) in the Computer Science Department at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) to become one of the major university sites of S2ERC - a well-established NSF I/UCRC center on Security and Software Engineering. With the addition to S2ERC of researchers and industry affiliates from the proposed site at UTD, a more comprehensive platform can be established to provide excellent opportunities for the academic community to become more aware of subject areas critical to the industry, as practitioners bring their needs to the table. This platform will also help achieve an additional objective of this grant to make STQA a leading research facility on software testing and quality assurance in the North Texas area.We will focus on developing advanced cutting-edge technologies, with user-friendly tool support, for technology transfer. We will assist practitioners, no matter what their previous level of experience with software testing and quality assurance, to be quickly brought up to speed on necessary background knowledge and gain the ability to apply a cost-effective set of procedures tailored to their specific projects. With such effort, it is more likely that software can achieve high quality more effectively at reduced cost.