From Nico's Website

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H(a|e)llo. My name is Nico Zazworka and I am a computer scientist. I am currently working for the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering [1]. I received my Ph.D. at the Department of Computer Science [2] at the University of Maryland [3]. My advisor was Professor Victor R. Basili [4] and I am member of the Experimental Software Engineering Group.

My main areas of work are:

• Preparing CMMI Level 2/3 organizations for high maturity CMMI (Level 4/5) appraisals
• Research on how to measure process conformance and process performance using minimal intrusive methods (e.g. by using existing data from issue tracking and configuration management systems)
• Building and evaluating technical solutions to identify Technical Debt in software projects (e.g. trough identification of code smells, ASA issues, Grime, and modularity violations)
• Investigating the usefulness of software visualization tools to help understand software quality and process issues
• Designing and evaluating visualization techniques that help identifying security attacks
• Research on code ownership and software repository analysis to support global software engineering

For further reading please see:

• My list of Publications
• CodeVizardWebsite

My email: zazworka-at-gmail.com

[edit] Latest News

• 4/25/2012: I will be presenting two webinars in May on Technical Debt with my colleague Carolyn Seaman from UMBC:
  • IEEE Webinar on May 10th: How automated approaches can help to identify Technical Debt
  • Webinar for Boeing on May 23rd: Monitoring and Managing Technical Debt
• 4/10/2012: My colleague Lucas Layman will be presenting our poster on InViz: Instant Visualization of Security Attacks at IEEE S&P 2012 in San Francisco
• 4/1/2012: After 18 month support our customer was successfully certified with CMMI Level 5 (CMMI-DEV v1.3). My main contribution was to collect requirements, design, develop, implement, and train on quantitative and statistical techniques to effectively measure and predict process performance in the organization's agile development environment.
• 3/22/2012: Two of our papers were accepted at the 3rd Workshop on Technical Debt which is co-located with ICSE:
  • Using Technical Debt Data in Decision Making: Potential Decision Approaches
  • Organizing the Technical Debt Landscape
• 3/7/2012: My colleague Antonio Vetro will be presenting our paper on Using the ISO/IEC 9126 product quality model to classify defects : a Controlled Experiment at EASE 2012
• 11/10/2011: Together with my colleague, Prof. Carolyn Seaman, I presented methods for identifying and managing Technical Debt in software reliant systems to an registered audience of over 600 practitioners as part of an IEEE webinar. The talk was given as part of the successful IEEE/Lockheed Martin webinar series: the online talk can be viewed here: [[5]]
• 06/01/2011: We will be presenting the paper "FLOW Mapping: Planning and Managing Communication in Distributed Teams" at the sixth IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE2011), Helsinki, Finland, August 15-18, 2011
• 02/01/2011: I am now working for the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering (CESE) Maryland in College Park, MD, USA : [[6]]
• 11/05/2010: I successfully defended my dissertation on: Process Conformance Testing: A Methodology to Identify and Understand Process Violations in Enactment of Software Processes
• 09/17/2010: Our paper on Are developers following the process: An XP Study won a best paper award at ESEM 2010.
• 08/24/2010: Future research directions in CS will include technical debt management: Our paper on Managing Technical Debt in Software-Reliant Systems will be presented at the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) and NITR&D/SPD Working Conference on the Future of Software Engineering Research. See Publications for more information.
• 05/27/2010: Two of our papers and one poster got accepted to the ESEM 2010 technical program. See Publications for more information.

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