Research old

Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) is a research group at the Department of Computer Science in the University of Helsinki, Finland co-lead by two professors Tommi Mikkonen and Tomi Männistö.

The group addresses software engineering research problems and challenges of industrial relevance and origin and has a strong basis in software engineering, particularly software architectures.

The research interests and activities of the group can best be described by the recent and ongoing projects and other activities. These are listed with pointers to further information below.

Recent openings

The group has a recent opening in the area of Programmable World. See e.g.,

An exciting collaboration is actively being built with the Discovery research group lead by Prof. Hannu Toivonen for the new research area in the intersection between computational creativity and self-adaptive software, with the goal of developing novel software architectures that can creatively adapt themselves in unforeseen situations.

New projects

OpenReq – Intelligent Recommendation & Decision Technologies for community-driven requirements engineering is an Eu Horizon 2020 RIA project started in the beginning of 2017. See the .

is a national project in Finland funded by Tekes and coordinated by DIMECC. The group is participating in the project among the collaborative team from the University of Helsinki, including also the Networking group by Prof. Sasu Tarkoma and Security of Prof. Valtteri Niemi.

Long-term activities

The activities in the area of software architecture include and in empirical software engineering the membership in .

The group has strong background in knowledge-based configuration from its very beginning in 1990’s. See e.g., or our paper on from times when some of the group members worked at TKK, currently Aalto University.

Recent theses

A recent PhD thesis from the group is that of Dr. Fabian Fagerholm on

Recent project include the following:

In the the group has been working on the software engineering paradigm called continuous experimentation in which data from real usage of software is collected and analysed for decision-making in software development. See, CE Cookbook (to be published soon), or

that investigated Dynamic Distributed Software Development Competencies. See also:

The group was also active in Cloud Software Programme was a large national programme funded by Tekes (from 2010–2013) and the related FidiPro (Finnish Distinguished Professorship) of Prof. Jürgen Münch in the topic Cloud Software Factory. These initiatives concentrated on utilisation of Cloud infrastructure and transition to Agile software development practices.