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CATEGORY: Support and Testing

Project: Design of Test Environment for non-conventional automated testing
Customer: IBM

	Product tested: AMIT = Active Middleware (new technology, planned to be part of IBM WebSphere offering) Description: black box testing with functional coverage analysis
	Expressing complex timing constraints and enacting them during testing
	Structured random data generation (probabilistic context-free grammars)
	Automatic functional coverage analysis (mining/classifying the randomly generated tests by feature tested)
	Extensible test framework, with visual interface for defining new tests for new product features
	Technologies used: - Java2 (J2SDK v1.3.1) - XML - Eclipse Platform Plugin Development
	Testing - Test-Driven Design and Implementation - Unit Tests (JUnit) - Testing the Test Environment by re-running the AMIT test suite created so far
	Reviews - Design Reviews - Code Reviews

Project: Source Level Debugger for IBM PowerNP processor
Customer: IBM

Description: retarget (port) the GNU GDB C source level debugger to IBM PowerNP (network processor), includes:

	Definition of the processor architecture and assembler language
	Interface to hardware simulator
	Command & GUI extensions for GDB for PowerNP specific instructions/registers
	Port of BFD to IBM format

Skills: C, assembler, TCP/IP, Tcl/Tk, GNU internals

Project: Netvista system integration testing
Customer: IBM

System integration testing on NetVista PC series

	OSes: Windows 98, 2000, XP

	Various languages, ranging from French to Russian

	Various hardware configurations

	Different combinations of preloaded applications

Project: Websphere application server support
Customer: IBM

Project description: level 2/3 support (i.e., source code level) for ObjectBuilder and ComponentBroker, an integrated environment for building eBusiness applications. ObjectBuilder allows the development of EJB and Corba objects for WAS.


	Programming languages: Java, EJB, C++, XML, Oracle, DB2, Informix

	OS: Solaris, AIX, win NT/2000