Dear CHOOSE members, We cordially invite you to the upcoming SIG Beer that will be given by Dr. Tudor Girba on Software Assessment. After the talk there will be the traditional SIGBeer apéro for informal Q&A. We hope to see many of you attending this talk! best regards, Harald Gall TITLE: Software assessment through exploration SPEAKER: Dr. Tudor Girba,www.tudorgirba.com LOCATION and TIME: October 23, 2009, 14.00-15.00 University of Zurich, Department of Informatics Binzmuehlestrasse 14, 8050 Zuerich Oerlikon, 2nd Floor, Area A, room 2.A.10 http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ifi/how_to_reach_us/ ABSTRACT: Assessing large software systems is traditionally tackled using off- the-shelf tools that offer static reports. However, complex software systems exhibit specific problems that require specific strategies to understand and solve. This talk argues that software assessment should embrace these peculiarities and instead of generic hardcoded tools, it should rely on dedicated exploratory tools to answer specific problems. The message is exemplified through demos of the Glamour and Mondrian scripting engines contained in the Moose analysis platform. BIO: Tudor Girba (www.tudorgirba.com) attained his PhD in 2005 from the University of Berne, Switzerland, and he now works as a consultant at Sw-eng. Software Engineering GmbH. His interests lie in the area of software engineering with focus on software assessment. He is one of the main architects and developers of the Moose platform (http://moose.unibe.ch ), and he participated in the development of several other assessment tools and models. He is the president of the Moose Association and the Treasurer of the Swiss Group for Object-Oriented Systems and Environments (CHOOSE).