Distinguished Lecture Series 2009-2010: Robyn Lutz

Software Product-Line Engineering for Sustainable, Long-lived Systems
Robyn Lutz, Iowa State University

Abstract
This presentation describes the current state of software engineering for
software product lines and proposes directions for needed work. It
first gives
a snapshot of central ideas and accomplishments in several key research areas
for software product lines. It then describes some problems that are
important
and feasible to solve in the next decade, where results will be used to good
effect in actual systems. We then focus more specifically on autonomous and
safety-critical software product lines that must evolve over time, and discuss
what recent research results mean for designing sustainable, long-lived
systems.

Bio:

Robyn R. Lutz received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Kansas
(1980). She has been a member of the technical staff at Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, California Institute of Technology since 1983, currently
in the Flight Software and Data Systems section. She is also a
professor in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State
University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in
software engineering. Her interests are in two overlapping areas of
software engineering: (1) how to build robust software systems and
(2) how to specify and analyze requirements and design. In the first
area, her work focuses on software safety, software product lines, and
defect analysis. In the second area, she works on formal modeling and
analysis of requirements and design, especially for fault detection
and recovery. Her research is supported by the National Science
Foundation and by NASA. She is a member of ACM, IEEE, and the IEEE
Computer Society.