Research Projects

A software tool (desktop and mobile) has been developed for the efficiency assessment of hydraulic generators' operation installed in Timisoara's drinkable water system and beyond. The diagnostic is computed based on QR codes and the traffic light system using three colors: green, for normal operation, yellow, for dangerous operation which requires a planned stop and finally red, for abnormal operation requiring an emergency halt.

The diagnostic system has been validated using laboratory experiments and several selected pumps in service for daylight and nighttime use at AQUATIM. Timisoara has more than 300.000 inhabitants, 30.000 foreign students and several hundreds km of pipes delivering drinkable water to the citizens.

The Principal Investigator of the project was interviewed by TeleU about the project results in this video clip:

The ever increasing impact of software systems and the high degree of societal dependence with respect to them, especially for infrastructure make it extremely important for software to evolve, in order to adapt to the new social and economic needs.
To make software evolution possible, a superior quality of its design and implementation process must be ensured.
For this reason, existing software must be continuously supported by automated systems for analysis, diagnose and improvement of code and design.
The project proposes an agile (continuous) approach to quality assurance for complex software systems, at the level of code (by means of static analysis and testing) and design (by means of metrics-based detection and correction of design flaws).