1. Marco Vieira University of Coimbra mvieira@dei.uc.pt Naples, 20th December 2011

2. N APLES, 20 TH D ECEMBER 2011 ::.. Who am I? Assistant Professor at University of Coimbra, Portugal Adjunct Associate Teaching Professor at CMU, USA BSc and MSc in Informatics Engineering – University of Coimbra PhD in Computer Science – University of Coimbra Research: Dependable computing Databases Software engineering

3. N APLES, 20 TH D ECEMBER 2011 ::.. Who am I? Teaching: Software engineering Project management, people management, estimation, risk management, etc. Databases And many other things… Discrete math, telecommunications, data analysis, strategic information systems, etc., etc. With industry: Software engineering, namely processes Advanced Databases Decision support

4. N APLES, 20 TH D ECEMBER 2011 ::.. Relevant research background Experimental dependability assessment Dependability Benchmarking Security Benchmarking Resilience Benchmarking Testing Robustness testing + Penetration testing Fault injection Vulnerability & Attack injection Failure prediction Application Areas: Databases Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) Self-adaptive systems

5. N APLES, 20 TH D ECEMBER 2011 ::.. More background Advising: 1 Pos-Doc 1 PhD and 3 MSc concluded 10 PhD students (2 concluding) Publications: 2 books + 12 book chapters + 9 journal papers 68 papers in top international conferences + 7 in PT conferences 16 workshop papers 39 other publications (short papers, fast abstracts, technical reports, etc.) More than 400 citations known Participated in 12 research projects 9 International (currently coordinates 1) 3 PT research projects Member of TPC and SPEC-Research

6. N APLES, 20 TH D ECEMBER 2011 ::.. In the IAPP Network… Secondments: To SESM: 2.75 mm To CSW: 0.5 mm Leads T3.1 Deliverable D3.1 - Quantitative methods for assessment of OTS software components Scientific contribution: Analysis of failure cases for system wide failures emulation Study of an enhanced web services robustness testing approach: Recognize customized and complex WS parameters from the description provided in the WSDL file Manage WS parameters that are XML-formatted Tool for web services robustness testing Tool for web services penetration testing

7. N APLES, 20 TH D ECEMBER 2011 ::.. In the IAPP Network… Presentations: “What can we do with Robustness Testing?”, Nov. 2010 “Failure Prediction: The Future of Dependable Computing”, Nov. 2010 “Fault Injection for Failure Prediction Methods Validation”, April 2010 “Robustness Testing for Web Services”, April 2010 “Web Services Robustness Improvement”, April 2010 What I got from the Network: Experience on ToK from academia to industry Access to industry practice and needs Fault injection, robustness testing, experimental dependability assessment, failure prediction, software development processes Opportunity to apply research results Robustness testing, penetration testing, etc. Networking

8. N APLES, 20 TH D ECEMBER 2011 ::.. Expectations… Development of further research: Continue the development of tools Apply our research in additional industrial scenarios Papers on partnership FUTURE: research project proposals Leverage research at all CSETP network partners This is being a great experience!!!

9. Thank you for your attention N APLES, 20 TH D ECEMBER 2011