TIES at 14 months. (or: Industry-Academia Collab on Steroids ) Robert Feldt & Richard Torkar. &

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1 TIES at 14 months (or: Industry-Academia Collab on Steroids ) Robert Feldt & Richard Torkar robert.feldt@bth.se & richard.torkar@chalmers.se

2 SWELL - A National Research School More PhD s (G1) of International top class (G2) with innovation & entrepreneurial knowledge in V&V (G3) Close contacts and exchange: industry <-> academia (G4) & industry <-> industry (G5) Swedish innovation env. <-> Internationally best (G6)

3 SWELL - A National Research School Robustness Active Safety Automated Acceptance Component -based Agile Safety Regression Req<->Test ITUniv & CTH, Göteborg MdH, Västerås Security Searchbased Req<->Test Interactive LTH, Lund BTH, Ronneby

4 SWELL Companies RUAG Aerospace Sweden - Optimizing V&V, Standards, Cost models Swedish Space Corporation - Optimizing V&V Ericsson (Karlskrona) - SW Customizations ABB, Sony Ericsson, Softhouse, Axis - Aligning Req & Test Activities Volvo Technology - Robustness Req & Testing Wireless Car & Ericsson (Gothenburg) - Robustness SAAB ATM & Systems - Agile testing, Test Creation f. Legacy Code ST Ericsson - Data Mining V&V Metrics Data Volvo Car Corp - Interface SW Development <-> Manufacturing

5 SWELL Scale for Industry Collaboration # Type Description 7 Employed by company 6 5 Collaboration Office at company Recurrent visits 4 Several visits 3 Exchange Data collection 2 1 Visit (One) Visit & discussions Presentation 0 Contact Initial

6 SWELL Scale for Industry Collaboration #

7 TIES = SWELL with Company Employees + Agile! # Type Description 8 Embedded Mentored employee, Continuous 7 Employed by company 6 5 Collaboration Office at company Recurrent visits 4 Several visits 3 Exchange Data collection 2 1 Visit (One) Visit & discussions Presentation 0 Contact Initial

8 SWELL Evaluation 2012 Created lots more contacts with industry Established empirical+applied testing research in Sweden All PhD students had close industry collab: a new modus operandi A national approach unique in this area: Create good PR Promoted collaboration between research groups Companies loved the industry days (100+ participants on last) Dependent on a few, key individuals Companies want to send employees to courses

9 Traditional Innovation Processes years Consultants 5-15 years and often less objective Can we shorten this to 1 year and create a cycle?

10 TIES = Build on and Improve from SWELL Put latest testing research in the hands of intrapreneurs Vinnovas krav till Juni 2014: Nå ut till minst 3 företag och 10 intraprenörer Företagen skall betala för att visa verkligt intresse Utvärdera med intraprenörer+företag vad effekterna blir Chalmers (och BTH) skall stötta

11 Basic Building Blocks

12 TIES = Improvement Projects + e-learning

13 post-mooc = SPOC? MOOC = Massive Open Online Course SPOC = Small, Private Online Course ispocr = Industry SPOC from new Research

14 TIES Improvement Projects UpToDate - latest research (1-2 years old) Industry - adapt to time frame of industry Private - "elite" engineers that can make changes happen based on new knowledge/skills Customized - to need of company & engineer Pragmatic - actual changes and improvements, not on general "build up" of abstract knowledge Online - for scalability and flexible access

15 TIES Activities 2013 Pain workshop with ABB and Ericsson Will this work? What should we change? Developing the processes and models Company assessment, Intrapreneur assessment, Research condensation process Design + Developing a web framework for delivery Interactive, Lightweight, Video-based PR and attracting companies 6 talks at industry conferences, at companies, even cold-calling Developing content Test optimization, Visual GUI Testing, Organisational change

16 TIES SIP = Supported Improvement Project

17 Companies in pipe and lined up 2014 Batch 1 Batch 3 Batch 2 On hold + 25 people on web site

18 Companies differ a lot: Test size/maturity analysis Test Maturity Size

19 Teaser DEMO

20 TIES Lessons Learned so far Mature companies need more mentoring, less e-learning Can this scale? Can there be economy in this? Do they expect to pay for this or see it as uniersity service?... TBD

21 Plan forward 2014

22 Questions?

Cross-boundary Research Collaborations

Cross-boundary Research Collaborations Robert Feldt Chalmers Dept of Computer Science and Engineering Division of Software Engineering HOSE Lab (Human-fOcused SE) 3 examples: 1. SWELL Research School