Talk by Dr. Vahid Garousi, in the Turkey-UK Research Partnerships Event (Feb 18, 2021) https://www.vgarousi.com https://uktechweekturkey.kongrelive.com/

1. UK-Turkey Research partnerships scoping event
Dr. Vahid Garousi
Associate Professor of Software
Engineering
Software Engineering Research Group
Queen’s University Belfast, UK
v.garousi@qub.ac.uk
www.vgarousi.com
@vgarousi
Industry-academia collaborations in Software
Engineering:
20+ Years of Experience from 50+ international
projects
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Yazılım Mühendisliğinde endüstri-akademi işbirligi:
50'den fazla uluslararası projeden 20+ yıllık tecrübe
Director and Senior Consultant
Bahar Software Engineering
Consulting Limited, UK
vahid@vgarousi.com
@BaharSoftware

2. Areas of research expertise
• Applied R&D in Software Engineering via industry-academia
collaborations
• What is Software Engineering (SE)?
• It is not (just) programming (development)! That is possibly ~30%
of SE efforts.
• How can we manage software requirements in an effective and efficient
manner?
• How can we design software systems in an effective and efficient
manner?
• How can we implement (program) software in an effective and efficient
manner?
• How can we test a given software system in an effective and efficient
manner?
• How can we maintain (evolve) a given software system in an effective and
efficient manner?
• How can we manage a software project in an effective and efficient
manner?
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A partial list of my
collaborators since
2000:

3. (A selected) List of my recent industry-academia
collaborative projects (ongoing and completed ones)
• H2020: XANDAR: X-by-Construction model-based Design
framework for Engineering Autonomous & Distributed Real-time
Embedded Software Systems (2021-2024)
cordis.europa.eu/project/id/957210
• Eight (8) partners, inc. BMW, from across Europe. Budget: ~€5 million
Euros
• I am leading one of the 7 WPs, on verification and validation (V&V)
• ITEA3 / TÜBİTAK : TESTOMAT (The Next Level of Software Test
Automation) (2018-2020)
• 34 partners from across the Europe. Budget: ~€21 million Euros
• www.testomatproject.eu
• PI of 3 grants from TÜBİTAK:
• Measurement, assessment and improvement of software testing
maturity for teams, services and organizations (2017-19), ₺120K
• Effective and efficient software test-code engineering (2016-18), ₺70K
• Web application testing in the Turkish software industry (2013-14),
₺60K
• (I founded and led a research group in Hacettepe Üniversitesi, 2015-17)
• And many more grants in Canada (2001-2013)
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Related to COVID Possible linkage with
previous talks: Dr. John
Ahmet Erkoyuncu,
model-based
approaches, works

4. Expectations from collaborations?
• My group and I are open to collaborations with both industrial and academic
partners in both Turkey and UK
• Are you a software company who wants to improve its Software Engineering /
testing practices? Then, let’s talk!
• Or a Software Engineering scientist / researcher in Turkey or the UK?
• Software is EVERYWHERE! Thus, we need to develop HIGH-QUALITY software for any
purpose (linkage to all other talks!)
• Industry-academia collaborations in Software Engineering are WIN-WIN to both
industry and academia
• There are many funding possibilities:
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TÜBİTAK's 1509-
International Industr
ial R&D Projects
Funding Programme
Industry Academia

5. CONTACT DETAILS
Dr. Vahid Garousi
Associate Professor of Software
Engineering
Queen’s University Belfast, UK
v.garousi@qub.ac.uk
www.vgarousi.com
@vgarousi
Director and Senior Consultant
Bahar Software Engineering
Consulting Limited, UK
vahid@vgarousi.com
@BaharSoftware