“Concurrent Software Testing: Who Needs It?”
Concurrent programs are becoming increasingly popular with current technologies, with multi-core processors and the increasing use of computer clusters. It always seeks to combine higher performance, distributed access and quality. In this context, concurrent software testing becomes more complex, because in addition to the difficulties inherent in the testing activity, new challenges are imposed. Multiple runs of concurrent software with the same input can execute different synchronization sequences and can produce different results. Esting activities are responsible, in this scenario, to identify whether the possible synchronization sequences were executed and whether the outputs obtained are correct. This keynote will present the main challenges for establishing mechanisms to support concurrent software testing, existing contributions, research and innovation opportunities in this area.
Dra. Simone do Rocio Senger de Souza
She holds a Ph.D. in Computational Physics from the University of São Paulo (2000), a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of São Paulo (1996) and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Ponta Grossa State University (1990). In 2010 she held a postdoctoral degree at the University of Southampton (UK), conducting research in the field of concurrent software testing. She was a lecturer at the State University of Ponta Grossa (PR), with the Department of Informatics between 1991 and 2005. Since then, she has been an associate professor at the Institute of Mathematical and Computer Sciences (ICMC / USP São Carlos). She is a researcher at the Laboratory of Software Engineering at ICMC (LabES), working in research in the area of software testing. Participated in national and international scientific cooperation projects such as Plavis – Platform for Validation and Integration of Software in Space Systems, QualiPSo – Quality Platform for Open Source Software, Procad (ICMC / UEM / PUC-RS) and INCT-SEC – National Institute of Science and Technology in Critical Embedded Systems. She is co-author of a chapter in the book Introduction to Software Test, published in 2007 and awarded the Jabuti Award – Best Book of Exact Sciences. Her research interests include software testing applied to competing software, experimental studies in software testing, software quality, and computer literacy.