Announcement: Personal Software Engineering Discussion Group
From: Daniel Bradley

Janet Wiles and I are pleased to announce a new discussion group series
for programmers developing complex systems simulations. Each session will start
with a short talk (~25 min.) by a developer describing their current or past
work, and a personal critique of the usefulness of the software engineering
practices they employed eg. documentation (requirements/specification), design,
testing etc. After each talk will be an open discussion, which we envision will
be more spontaneous and in-depth than usual seminar question times.

A goal of the discussion group is to facilitate sharing of software engineering
expertise between developers and provide exposure to new methodologies and
techniques. Our aim is to increase the level of software engineering expertise
among complex systems modelers.

RSVP
If you are interested in being involved please send a quick email to me at
d.bradley@imb.uq.edu.au, so that we can keep track of numbers.
Additional details may be found on the discussion group's web page:
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~daniel/pse-dg/index.html


The first talk will be this coming Tuesday 17th January.

Place: Room 421, GP South (Building 78)
Time: Tuesday 17th January, 12:00

Title: "Of Application Frameworks, GRN Simulations and Software Engineering"
Presenter: Daniel Bradley

Abstract:

This talk will describe the use and effectiveness of various software
engineeringtechniques used while developing a cross-platform C++ application
framework, and the gene regulatory network (GRN) simulations developed using it.
The first section will describe the framework and its capabilities, the second
will discuss problems encountered developing and using cross-platform libraries,
finally, the third section will discuss the software engineering practices used
as well as reflect on those that should have been used.


Daniel Bradley
Research Assistant
ARC Centre in Bioinformatics
d.bradley@imb.uq.edu.au