Thaís Harumi Ussami’s secondment with UNIFI

The secondment of Thaís Harumi Ussami at the University of Firenze is underway. She arrived in the beginning of October and she will stay until March, fulfilling 6 months of secondment.

Thaís is coming from Campinas – SP, Brazil, where she is an MSc student under the supervision of Prof. Eliane Martins at the UNICAMP. Although they are still working on the definition of her research topic, she is currently researching approaches for the automated generation of tests using techniques related to model based testing and behavior driven development, which will guide the agile development of the systems.

On October 20, she had a talk in which she introduced her topic and presented some of her work to UNIFI researchers. Basically, she is now working on a new agile technique that uses the benefits of model based testing to create test cases that will guide the incremental development. State machines are used to represent the system's behavior, so they will be used as documentation as well as the model from which test cases will be derived. Also, they will be used to validate the system’s behavior with the client.

Several UNIFI professors, researchers and students attended the meeting, which besides presenting Thaís’ work, also had the goals of discussion of the tasks for the secondment and find the researchers more suited to collaborate with her.