I am Assistant Professor (MCF) at University of Lille-1 and member of the INRIA/RMod research team

Nicolas DOT Anquetil AT inria DOT fr

Research office: +33 3 20 33 61 32, Room: LIFL M3, room 111a

Teaching Office: +33 3 20 43 47 14, Room: IUT-A, 3A049

Research Interests

My research interests cover about anything that has to do with software maintenance. Currently, in the INRIA/RMod team, I am working on reverse engineering which aims at providing technical solutions to help people understand better and modify legacy software. For example I work on software re-structuring, or how to help re-organizing a legacy software into coherent modules.

Because We cannot control what we cannot measure, I am also interested in software quality topics, to measure the maintenance activity and legacy software.

In the past, I worked on the following sub-topics in relation with software maintenance: sociological aspects (Why is maintenance negatively perceived when it is the most practised activity in organizations?); knowledge management (How to recover all the knowledge that is embedded in legacy software?); maintenance management (software quality, risk management, ...)

Keywords: Software Maintenance, Software Quality, Software Reverse-Engineering, Social Aspects of Software Maintenance

Teaching

I am teaching at IUT_A (a Technical Institute) in the computer science department:

• UI Programming (Java/Swing)
• Software Engineering: Testing

Projects

I lead the INRIA/FAPEMIG project Pequi in collaboration with with Prof. Marco Tulio Valente from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil). This international project is on Metrics, Techniques, and Tools for Software Remodularization.

I am member of the ANR project Cutter, a collaboration between RMoD and the team of Marianne Huchar at LIRMM (Univerity of Montpellier). The project's title is Quality driven Object-Oriented Software Remodularization.

Awards

CASCON 20th Anniversary Award: First Decade High Impact Paper

Awarded CASCON 2010 (IBM's Center for Advanced Studies CONference), for the paper "An Examination of Software Engineering Work Practices" by J. Singer, N. Vinson, T.C. Lethbridge, N. Anquetil, published at CASCON 1997

Ten Years Later, Most Influential Paper of WCRE'99

Awarded WCRE'09 (Working Conference on Reverse Engineering), for the paper "Experiments with Clustering as a Software Remodularization Method" by N. Anquetil, and T.C. Lethbridge, published at WCRE'99

Mather Premium

Awarded in 2004 by the journal IEE Proceedings - Software (now IET Software), for the paper "Comparative Study of Clustering Algorithms and Abstract Representations for Software Remodularization" by N. Anquetil, and T.C. Lethbridge, published in IEE Proceedings - Software, 2003

Dorgival Brandão Junior

Awarded by the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology in a national contest for the best project in Software Quality. The project was "Essential Documentation: Focus on the Documentation Necessary for Software Maintenance", by master student Sergio Cozzetti

Best Master Thesis at SBQS 2005

Awarded at SBQS 2005 (Brazilian Symposium on Software Quality) for the Master Thesis of Christiane S. Ramos "Legacy Software Evaluation"

Other Academic Activity

In recent years, I was reviewer for different journals in Software Engineering: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution (JSME), Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Software Quality Journal (SQJ), Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), Journal of Object Technology (JOT), Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JBCS).

Regular member of the main international conferences in the software maintenance area: ICSM, WCRE, CSMR. Also member of the program committee of Brazilian conferences: SBES, SBQS, WMSWM

Co-founder, with Rosangela A.D. Penteado, of the Brazilian Workshop on Software Maintenance (WMSWM) in 2004. The workshop still happens on a yearly basis.

Participation in the organization of international events: Benevol 2010, WCRE'09