The seminar "Experimentation in Software Engineering" aims to help participants understand and apply evidence-based methods for research in software engineering, and to learn about the design and analysis of controlled experiments for evaluating software engineering techniques. It was taught from March 21 to 25 by Dr. Natalia Juristo, PhD in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and Martín Solari, Associate Professor in the Department of Software Engineering at ORT University.
Meanwhile, the seminar "Six Sigma Applied to Software Process Improvement" aims to understand the philosophy and quantitative concepts behind Six Sigma and its application to software engineering. It will be taught from April 4 to 8 by Dr. Tomás San Feliu, Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Castilla-La Mancha, and Santiago Matalonga, M.S. in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and lecturer in Software Engineering at ORT University.
Faculty:
Natalia Juristo holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the UPM. She has received an Honorary Doctorate from the Blekinge Institute of Technology and is a member of the IEEE Computer Society Golden Core. Professor of Software Engineering at the UPM School of Computer Science and Coordinator of the European Master’s in IS involving the Universities of Bolzano (Italy), Kaiserslautern (Germany), and Blekinge (Sweden). She has an extensive research career in the areas of empirical software engineering, usability, requirements engineering, and software testing. She has served on program committees (including ICSE, RE, REFSQ, ESEM, and ISESE), has been a member of editorial boards (including IEEE Software and the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering), and has been a guest editor for special issues of various journals (including IEEE Software, the Journal of Software and Systems, Data and Knowledge Engineering, andthe International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering).
Martín Solari is a Systems Engineer and Associate Professor in the Department of Software Engineering at ORT University. His research areas include software testing, process improvement, and empirical software engineering. He is a candidate researcher in the National System of Researchers. He has obtained the Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) in the joint Doctoral Program in Computer Engineering Universidad ORT Uruguay Polytechnic University of Madrid. He is currently working on his doctoral thesis in the area of empirical software engineering. He has been a fellow of the Carolina Foundation, PDT, ANII, and the European Union’s Erasmus Mundus program.
Tomas San Feliu holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Castilla-La Mancha. He is a Professor and Ph.D. at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He has been involved in the software industry in Spain, where he has worked as a consultant for over 15 years. He is the author of several publications in journals and conference proceedings. He serves as coordinator of the team translating version 1.3 of the CMMI model into Spanish. His current research interests include project management and risk management.
Santiago Matalonga holds a degree in Systems Engineering from ORT University. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, under the supervision of Dr. Tomás San Feliu. He is the author of several articles presented at international conferences on the topic of software process improvement. He teaches Process Improvement, Change Management, and Quantitative Project Management at ORT University. Professionally, he has been involved in several process improvement initiatives for national companies, notably his active participation in the first deployment and evaluation of a CMMI Level 3 methodology within a Uruguayan company. He currently provides consulting services in management and process improvement.