Goals

The LASER summer school, organized by the ETH Chair of Software Engineering, brings together the concepts and practice of software engineering in the idyllic setting of the Elba Island off the coast of Tuscany, easily reachable by air, car, bus or train.

The LASER school is intended for professionals from the industry (engineers and managers) as well as university researchers, including PhD students. Participants learn about the most important software technology advances from the pioneers in the field. The school's focus is applied, although theory is welcome to establish solid foundations. The format of the school favors extensive interaction between participants and speakers.

Topic and speakers

Testing used to be the dirty secret of software development: practiced by everyone as the main technique of quality assurance, but without a serious scientific foundation. This is no longer the case; research in recent years has brought considerable advances to the theory of testing and the quality of testing tools. The LASER 2009 summer school presents these advances, both theoretical and practical, addressing the science of testing as well as the concrete solutions available to development teams.

The seven speakers are among the top international experts in the field from both academia and industry, having brought major contributions to the progress of testing techniques.

The program both for industry practitioners who want to improve their testing process and to scientists who want to explore the concepts in depth and find new research ideas.

The speakers are among the most respected experts in the field:

Alberto Avritzer, Siemens
     on Software Performance Testing for Scalability and Reliability Assessment: Theory and Practice



Michel Cukier, University of Maryland
     on On the Quantification of Computer Security



Yuri Gurevich, Microsoft Research
     on Model Based Testing, and Scientific Experimentation



Bertrand Meyer, ETH Zurich and Eiffel Software
     on Programs can test themselves



Mauro Pezzè, University of Lugano
     on From testing to dynamic analysis



Elaine Weyuker, AT&T, and Tom Ostrand, AT&T
     on Software Fault Prediction - What, Why, When, Where and How

with Mark Harman for a special guest lecture.

Venue

The school takes place at the magnificent Hotel del Golfo in Golfo di Procchio, Elba. Along with an intensive scientific program, participants will have time to enjoy the natural and cultural riches of this history-laden jewel of the Mediterranean.

Previous lecturers

This event is listed at the Computer Science Event List, events.informatics-europe.org