1. ’05 Eur Ing Dr. A. J. (Tony) Cowling Senior Lecturer Verification and Testing Research Group Department of Computer Science, U. of Sheffield Homepages: Personal: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~ajc/ Group: http://www.shef.ac.uk/dcs/research/groups/vt List of main empirical research areas:  Comparing complete development processes  Understanding how processes actually work  How formal methods are actually used Main motivation for joining ISERN:  To interact more effectively with the ESE community  contributing our experience, results, etc  gaining from the experience and results of others Planned contributions to the community:  Experience of large-scale experimentation Candidate member

2. ’05 Main empirical research areas:  Comparing complete development processes:  agile versus document-driven processes  combining the best features of different processes;  Understanding how processes actually work:  what process features affect efficiency?  what process features affect quality of products?  how do process features interact?  how do individual personalities and team aspects affect these?  How formal methods are actually used:  the role of testing and verification in achieving quality  factors influencing their use in practice. Candidate member Eur Ing Dr. A. J. (Tony) Cowling Senior Lecturer Verification and Testing Research Group Department of Computer Science, U. of Sheffield

3. ’05 Main motivation for joining ISERN:  To interact more effectively with the ESE community  contributing our experience, results, etc  gaining from the experience and results of others  mutually advancing knowledge and practice Expectations  To input to collaborations  our experience is distinctive, but comparatively limited  To benefit from collaborations  ideas that might help us to work more effectively  To achieve more in collaboration than we could on our own Motivation & Expectation

4. ’05 Planned contributions to the community:  Experience of large-scale experimentation  an infrastructure for comparative experiments on complete processes  a framework in which to fit comparisons of individual methods  Experience of developing curricula in software engineering  including the projects which we observe in our experiments  with a strong emphasis on appropriate formal methods and testing Current collaborations with ISERN (if any):  Contributions to this meeting:  session on data ownership  session on balancing practices (inspections, testing, etc) Contribution & Collaboration