Evolving Software Collaboratively

软件需要不断发展，以满足不断变化的用户需求、业务创新和技术进步(例如，云、移动、多核、多点触控)。本研究计划研究软件团队改进软件以满足这些不断变化的需求的方法。其目标是支持软件开发人员快速进行准确的软件更改，同时提高软件的质量和可用性。研究项目将探索软件更改的方式，如何设计软件以适应更改，以及如何协调基于团队的开发以高效和有效地管理更改。将开发模型、符号、工具和技术，并通过实地研究和案例研究加以验证。将使用正式语言处理和软件分析技术来支持大型软件系统的自动化分析和系统变更。这些技术将应用于许多应用领域，重点是支持团队协作和创造力的软件开发工具。加拿大政府估计，加拿大有超过3万家信息和通信技术公司，年收入超过1400亿美元。这项研究计划的结果旨在提高加拿大软件公司在提供创新、高质量和可用的软件方面的竞争力，这些软件可以随时演变以满足新兴的信息处理技术进步和最终用户要求。

Software needs to continually evolve to meet changing user needs, business innovation and technological advances (e.g., cloud, mobile, multi-core, multi-touch). This research program investigates approaches for software teams to evolve software to meet these changing requirements. The goal is to support software developers to make accurate software changes quickly while improving the quality and usefulness of the software.Research projects will explore how software changes, how software can be designed to accommodate change, and how team-based development can be coordinated to efficiently and effectively manage change. Models, notations, tools and techniques will be developed and validated with field and case studies. Formal language processing and software analysis techniques will be used to support automated analysis and systematic change of large-scale software systems. The techniques will be applied in a number of application areas with a focus on software development tools that support team collaboration and creativity.The government of Canada estimates that there are over 30,000 Information and Communications Technology firms in Canada with over $140 billion in annual revenues. The results of this research program are intended to improve the competitiveness of Canadian software firms in delivering innovative, quality and usable software that readily evolves to meet emerging information processing advances and end-users requirements.