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SSELab

The SSELab is a laboratory for the development and application of software engineering techniques and concepts.

A variety tools, frameworks and technologies for various tasks in the development process can be used for the efficient development of software. Particular at the beginning but also at run time a project, the installation, configuration and project-specific adaptation of these tools requires a high work-related and time-consuming effort.

The research project SSELab deals with the development of a centralized, server-based infrastructure, in which any kind of the software engineering tools can be integrated efficiently. This tools can be provided on demand for development projects and configured in accordance with the project-specific requirements.

Architecture and Technologies

The SSELab consists of several subsystems that offer different types of software engineering tools as services. A centralized enterprise application enables the efficient administration of users and projects, and basic services. Examples include tools for version control and the task, project and knowledge management. By another enterprise application, and related client applications, generation and transformation services, such as code generators for domain-specific languages (DSLs) or generating documentation are made available. A third subsystem realizes a flexible continuous integration environment through which the areas of quality assurance, testing and metrics management are covered. An essential aspect of all infrastructure components is the expansion of services offered at run time through the use of plug-in systems.

Im SSELab werden eine Vielzahl von modernen aber gleichzeitig auch Industrie-relevanten Technologien und Frameworks für die Entwicklung von Server-basierten Anwendungen eingesetzt. Einige Bespiele dafür sind:

• Sprachen und Frameworks:
  • Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5:
    • JBoss Rich Faces
    • Java Server Faces (JSF)
    • Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 3
    • Java Persistence API (JPA)
  • OSGi
• Testframeworks:
  • JUnit
  • DBUnit
• Server:
  • Apache
  • Glassfish
  • JBoss Application Server
• Datenbanksysteme:
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • SQLite

Im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts GloSE (Global Software Engineering) wird in Kooperation mit der TU Clausthal, der Leibniz Universität Hannover, der TU München sowie diversen Industriepartnern das SSELab erweitert, um den speziellen Anforderungen global verteilter Entwicklung gerecht zu werden.