The ultimate goal is to identify robust, fast, reliable, and practical methods that contribute to software development. The computations and large volumes of data collected by industry will use the Empirical Software Engineering Laboratory's significant computing power and sophisticated software tools to conduct the necessary experiments. Predicting Bugs Software is a major component of modern telecommunications systems. Society's reliance on such systems mandates high reliability. The size and complexity of telecommunications software systems present major challenges to the developers who must deliver highly reliable software.
Few defects implies high quality.
Nortel is a major manufacturer of telecommunications systems. SEAL also helps Nortel software developers introduce that technology into their projects. The Empirical Software Engineering Laboratory at Florida Atlantic University is one of SEAL's research partners. We are focusing on complexity and maintainability issues, such as predicting faults. It is widely recognized that discovering and correcting faults early in the development life cycle is much less expensive than during testing and especially after release.