Our main product, Adele, a software configuration management tool, has currently more than 1500 seats in industrial production. Indeed, it became a tradition to target real issues provided by our industrial partners, and to provide a solution that represents an academic advance, and a tool robust enough to be validated in industrial production. Main research areas Sotfware architecture. Cooperative and distributed engineering.
Software architecture covers a wide spectrum of topics.
We have formalized the DS component model and we are developing tools for supporting, at the architectural level, the multi millions lines softwares developed by DS and its clients. Non functional properties. This work seeks to subsume current industrial component models. It is no surprise they did not found their way into industry. The issues for creating a robust application out of COTS are numerous.