Modeling and Testing for System and Service Solutions

The competence centre MOTION generates processes, methods and tools that provide continuous development and quality control of software based systems and services ranging from drafts to tests and operation as well as certification and approval.

Using its integrated system and testing development MOTION is able to constructively compile system quality, continuously verify and ultimately improve it. For its integrated, tool based development, simulation and testing the competence centre is using methodologies connected to infrastructures as well as to shared and adaptive system architectures.

Based on standardised methods and technologies MOTION develops solutions for the Future Internet, eHealth, Automotive, eGovernment and Smart Cities, supporting an effective and increasingly automated system engineering. MOTION is developing these domain, technology and process specific solutions for the support of an effective and increasingly automated system engineering based on MOF, UML, SysML, UTP, TTCN-3, MDA and Eclipse.

Learn more about MOTION’s current projects, topics, technologies as well as testing and development environments. For individual consulting and training services as well as requests for collaboration, please contact Prof. Dr. Ina Schieferdecker

Final Report of Co:llaboratory: Privacy and Publicness

The Co:llaboratory, a think tank for social issues of the internet initiated by Google, published their fourth initiative’s final report about “Digital Privacy and Publicness”. The expert group did deliberately not give a procedure recommendation, but positioned various perspectives. The final report presents for instance three scenarios of the data privacy in the year 2035, 16 thought-provoking impulses and five unique interviews with experts.

Apps4Deutschland: Innovative ideas, applications and data wanted

Fraunhofer FOKUS supports the nationwide open data competition Apps4Deutschland [LINK: http://apps4deutschland.de/]. We are looking for innovative applications for PC and mobile phone to make the public sector data available to the general public. In addition to the category "application", concepts for the categories "ideas" and "open data" for authorities, who open their data sets for the competition, will be rewarded.

Fraunhofer FOKUS receives the ITEA Exhibition Award with “Fredi, the Fox“

The DIAMONDS project convinced visitors at ITEA & ARTEMIS Co-summit 2011 in Helsinki. Out of 42 ITEA-projects, it won the ITEA Exhibition Award. This public's choice award annually honors the project team, which presents its aims and results in the most understandable and vivid way.

Call for Papers: Software Testing, Verification and Reliability

Prof. Dr. Ina Schieferdecker and Anneliese A. Andrews are the guest editors of the Special Issue of the Journal  Software Testing, Verification and Reliability. The issue on Testing of Embedded Safety-critical Systems focuses among other things on test methods, tools and processes as well as empirical studies and industrial applications. You’re invited to submit papers until 15th November 2011.

UrbanTec 2011

New technologies and trends for Smart Cities shows the UrbanTec 2011 from October 24 - 26 in Cologne. Fraunhofer FOKUS will present the new Berlin Open Data Portal and the project Open Cities. For both projects, Fraunhofer FOKUS realizes central platforms, to offer citizens and businesses a safely access public data for further processing.

Fraunhofer FOKUS & OBJEKTspektrum publish special „Testing“

Under the aegis of Prof. Dr. Ina Schieferdecker, Head of Competence Center MOTION at Fraunhofer FOKUS, the Institute edits the OBJEKTspektrum’s annual special issue on “Testing”. Inspired by Harry M. Sneed’s lifework – who was honored with the first German award for software quality – Schieferdecker looked critically at the latest developments or rather standstills in the test automation.

1st ETSI MBT User Conference

Fraunhofer FOKUS and Fraunhofer FIRST are organizing the 1st ETSI MBT User Conference 2011 in Berlin from October 18 to 20 to exchange knowledge in the fields of engineering and application aspects of model-based testing. Holger Schlingloff (Fraunhofer FIRST), Ina Schieferdecker (Fraunhofer FOKUS) and Stephan Weißleder (Fraunhofer FIRST) chair the organizational committee. Stephan Schulz (Conformiq Software, Finland) and Wolfgang Grieskamp (Google) hold the program chairs.