An Undergraduate Summer Research Program in Software Safety

This paper shares the experiences and lessons learned from conducting an NSF-sponsored eight-week summer research program for ten undergraduate students from multiple universities. The focus of the research was on "Verification and Validation for Software Safety", and emphasized a strong fundamental knowledge of software safety while maintaining a close collaboration with industry. The program included lectures and special tutorials from guest speakers, field trips, review sessions, as well as posters and final presentations by the students.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: CSEE
• Authors: W. Eric Wong, Vidroha Debroy
• Keywords: CSEE 2010, NSF-sponsored Eight-week Summer, Software Engineering, Software Safety, Strong Fundamental Knowledge