A Software Factory to produce on-demand Android Applications
Context
In the context of a large collaborative project involving a multi-disciplinary team in computer science and medicine, we are interested in creating mobile apps tailored to the privacy requirements of the final user. The RELAI project (project selected in the context of the New Frontier program supported by CRSH) aims to support mental health professional while diagnosing mental disorders. As the data needed to perform such a task are highly confidential and private, the used software must respect the level of consent expressed by the patient.
Thus, this MSc proposal aims to model and implement a software factory for android applications. Based on the business input given by the patient and the medical staff, the factory will select the right piece of software to assemble to build a dedicated application for this very patient, explicitly tracing how his/her privacy is respected in the process.
Skills and Background
- loving to craft software;
- knowing how to use Git, and the meaning of the MVP acronym;
- fluency in object-oriented programming (e.g., Java);
- good knowledge in object-oriented software design;
- knowing the difference between inheritance and composition to define extensible object-oriented code;
- knowing software development good practices (i.e, Clean Code by Uncle Bob is on your night table).
Required role of the student
- contribution to a research project;
- contribution to the development of prototypes;
- discovering state-of-the-art literature;
- communicating about the work done in the lab (technical report, article).
References
- Feature-oriented software product lines Apel, Sven, Don Batory, Christian Kästner, and Gunter Saake. Springer-Verlag 2016.
- Smart composition of reusable software components in mobile application product lines. Ricardo Erikson V.S. Rosa and Vicente F. Lucena, Jr. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Product Line Approaches in Software Engineering (PLEASE) 2011.
Supervision
Sébastien Mosser
Professor, UQAM