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越来越普遍地使用，随着其复杂性和功能越来越大，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，工业界和学术界需要作为一个团队共同努力，进行合作研究，以便缩小最先进的研究和最先进的技术之间的差距。可以减少现场使用的实践技术。这项计划拨款的目的是准备软件测试和质量保证（STQA）的高级研究中心在计算机科学系在得克萨斯大学达拉斯（UTD）成为S2 ERC的主要大学网站之一-一个完善的NSF I/UCRC中心的安全和软件工程。随着研究人员和行业附属机构从拟议的网站在UTD的S2 ERC的增加，可以建立一个更全面的平台，为学术界提供更好的机会，成为对行业至关重要的主题领域，因为从业者把他们的需求摆在桌面上。这个平台也将有助于实现这笔赠款的另一个目标，使STQA成为北德克萨斯州地区软件测试和质量保证方面的领先研究机构。我们将专注于开发先进的尖端技术，并提供用户友好的工具支持，以促进技术转让。我们将帮助从业者，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，都能快速掌握必要的背景知识，并获得应用一套适合他们特定项目的成本效益程序的能力。通过这种努力，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.