Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

This year, we would like to highlight the following results:

In terms of publications:

• Among the many articles published this year, articles [25] and b [28] have been published at the highest level but above all they represent perfectly the type of research conducted within the team: open research based on studies of major open-source software and in connection with the developer communities.

• The results of this year's SLE conference also make us very proud. 4 accepted papers including 1 best vision paper [33], 1 best artifact (hal-01890446) and the award for the best reviewer for a former doctoral student of the team recently appointed associate professor at the University of Nantes.

A former PhD student of the team, Pierre Laperdrix was awarded the "Le prix de thèse Gilles Kahn 2018 (premier accessit), décerné par la SiF et patronné par l’Académie des Sciences" for his PhD entitled Browser Fingerprinting: Exploring Device Diversity to Augment Authentication and Build Client-Side Countermeasures.

Three new PhDs and one new HDR have been succesfully defended this year.

A new CNRS junior researcher, Djamel Eddine Khelladi, will join the team in 2019.

Mathieu Acher succesfully submitted its ERC starting grant program: Killing and Resurrecting Software Variability (REVARY). This research program fully structures the Variability axis of the team for the next years.

Didier Vojtisek, research engineer hosted since many years within the team was awarded the Inria award (appui à la recherche) with Guillaume Cassonnet, Christophe Demarey, Herve Mathieu, Florent Pruvost for the Sonarqube project. As a research team in the field of software engineering, we study and produce many open source software artefacts. In this context, we regularly test and deploy internally support services to produce high-quality software. Sonar (SonarQube ancestor) had been deployed internally since 2008. Embedding research engineers into software engineering research teams as often as possible is undoubtedly a win-win operation for both parties (the research team but also the SED and therefore Inria as a whole)

Awards

Paper was awarded the best vision paper at SLE'18.

Paper was awarded the best artefact associated to a scientific paper at SLE'18.

Paper was awarded the best paper at ICMT'18.

Best Papers Awards:

[33]

[36]

[32]