Research

Model-driven software development; software verification and validation; software quality measurement, control and assurance; development and testing of software to ensure dependability.

Application

Software controls such critical processes as banking, nuclear reactors, automobile systems and flight controls.

Activities

Program Chair, IEEE/ACM MODELS Conference (2005) Program Committee Member, ICSE, MoDELS, ISSRE, ISESE, ICSM Editor in Chief, Empirical Software Engineering Editorial Board for Software Systems and Modeling (Springer) Ranked among top five scholars in the world in software systems engineering by Journal of Information and Software Technology (2004, 2005) Steering committees MoDELS, ICSM Keynote speaker at IEEE WCRE 2006, IEEE/ACM ESEM 2007

Journal Articles

Erik Arisholm, Lionel C. Briand, Siw Elisabeth Hove, Yvan Labiche (2006), “The Impact of UML Documentation on Software Maintenance: An Experimental Evaluation,” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (publication pending).
Conference Publications

L. C. Briand, Y. Labiche, and M. Sowka, “Automated, Contract-based User Testing of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Components,” IEEE/ACM Int. Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Shanghai, China 2006 (publication pending).

V. Garousi, L. Briand, and Y. Labiche, “Traffic-aware Stress Testing of Distributed Real-Time Systems based on UML Models,” IEEE/ACM Int. Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Shanghai, China 2006 (publication pending).