AGEDIS - Project Summary

In the last week of October, the European Commission signed an agreement to fund a three-year research project on the automation of software testing. The consortium that will carry out the research and development work consists of seven industrial and academic research centres in Europe and the Middle East. The consortium is headed by the IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, and contains academic partners at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, the Verimag laboratory at Universite Joseph Fourier in Grenoble. The major industrial partners are France Telecom R&D, the IBM development Laboratory in Hursley Park (UK), and Intrasoft International, a major software development company with headquarters in Luxembourg and Athens. The company charged with developing commercial applications of the project is a small dynamic software testing company, imbus AG, based in Moehrendorf Germany.

The aim of the project is to increase the efficiency and competitiveness of the European software industry by automating of software testing, and improving the quality of software while reducing the expense of the testing phase. AGEDIS will achieve this by developing a methodology and tools for the automation of software testing in general, with emphasis on distributed component-based software systems. The total budget of the project is 4.3 Million EURO, of which the EC is funding 2.3 Million EURO. The IBM Israel Haifa Research Laboratory will coordinate and manage the project.

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