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Job Utrecht University - Scientific-programmer/Software-engineer (1,0 fte)

Scientific-programmer/Software-engineer (1,0 fte)

Job description

Within the European FITTEST project on Future Internet testing, the Center for Software Technology has an open position for one scientific-programmer/software-engineer.

The topic of the work is to develop a new log-based diagnosis approach to assist continuous testing of Future Internet applications: due to the increasingly dynamic nature of internet applications, it becomes increasingly hard to obtain and maintain good testing coverage. Software system logs can provide complementary information when execution suddenly deviates from normal, and help testers to construct test-cases to test such deviations thoroughly, thereby increasing coverage again. One of the major topics of research is on how to enhance a log-based approach with the ability to automatically recognize that parts of the programs are potentially fragile and therefore require extensive testing and more precise logging. This demand for precision is countered by the need to keep the application’s load at an acceptable level. Since logging will happen live, another crucial issue is how to guarantee that the produced logs do not leak private information, and how to convince users that such is the case. In addition to developing the diagnosis approach, you will also collaborate with other partners within the FITTEST project, e.g. to integrate the diagnosis approach into FITTEST's unified continuous testing workbench and to conduct case studies. Our partners are: Polytechnic University Valencia, University College London, Bruno Kessler Foundation (Italy), B&M Systemtechnik (Germany), IBM (Israel), Softeam (France), and Sulake Corp. (Finland).

Requirements

The candidate should have at least an MSc in Computer Science and a good work attitude. You are expected to deliver good quality, tested, and well documented software. Your main responsibility is to build an instrumentation framework to facilitate logging.

Experience in any of the following areas will be a distinct advantage:

• virtual machines (e.g. JVM) and byte codes;
• web scripting languages (e.g. ActionScript, JavaScript, PHP);
• aspect oriented programming;
• software testing and debugging;
• functional programming;
• Web application frameworks (e.g. PHP, Flex, or Ruby on Rails).

Conditions of employment

The candidate will be offered a full-time position for one year.

The salary is supplemented with a holiday bonus of 8% and an end-of-year bonus of 8,3% per year. In addition we offer: a pension scheme, a partially paid parental leave, flexible employment conditions. Conditions are based on the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities. The research group will provide the candidate with necessary support on all aspects of the project. More information you can find on the website.

Contract type

Temporary

Department

Department Information and Computing Sciences, group Software Technology

The research group of Software Technology at Utrecht University focuses its research on programming methodologies, compiler construction, and program analysis, validation, and verification, including testing. For more information see http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/Center.

Additional information

For further information you can direct your inquiries to Dr Wishnu Prasetya, telephone: (+31) 30 253 4090 or e-mail: wishnu@cs.uu.nl.

 

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