DOSSIER-Cloud implemented a series of coordination and support actions for transferring knowledge and exchanging best practices in the research area of Software Engineering for Distributed Systems development. It brought together two internationally recognized scientific groups from Netherlands and Italy that collaborate with Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) so as to increase CUT’s research capacity and prowess, by investigating a number of significant topics in the field of interest. It was envisaged that a number of high-quality research outcomes were defined during and produced after the duration of the project; this enableed CUT to significantly increase its international standing in the research community, by both achieving related publications in top-tier scientific journals and conferences, as well as by producing new tools that benefited practitioners in the software industry. Knowledge acquisition and transfer was achieved through personnel exchanges, site visits, organization of workshops and summer/winter schools with lectures and seminars, participation in international scientific conferences/workshops and establishment of strong links with the software industry. The research topics included novel DevOps oriented software life-cycle methodologies for distributed systems, as well as automation of certain phases or activities. Emphasis was placed on industrial involvement and practitioners’ engagement. The anticipated overall impact of this project was: (i) Improvement of CUT’s research capacity, significance of research outcomes, productivity and visibility, (ii) Increase in developer productivity, reduction of development effort and improved quality of software services. The results were: (i) dramatically impacted the way distributed software services and applications were produced in the near future, (ii) pave the way for software development organizations to become more agile when striving to adequately respond to clients’ expectations.
The project is closed.