Birgitta Lindström
Associate Professor of Informatics
School of Informatics
Room PA420S
Upcoming events
The 1st International Software Testing Workshop (TestEd) will be held in Porto in October 2020. TestEd 2020 is the first workshop entirely focused on education in software testing—how to teach and learn software testing and how to get more software testing into the classrooms. TestEd will bring together researchers and practitioners who teach software testing to share and discuss their experience and best advice on how to bring more and better software testing education into courses.
More information and CFP is found at https://testedworkshop.github.io/
Teaching
Employed at the University of Skövde since 2000. Got the students award for the best teacher at the school of Humanities and Informatics, Guldäpplet 2012. Currently teaching Software testing, Concurrent programming, Distributed systems, Scientific workshop and Software engineering experimentation, as well as being examiner and supervisor of final year projects at BSc and MSc level.
Experience
- From 2019 Birgitta is Director of the PhD education in Informatics
- Responsible for the topic Computer Science at BSc and MSc level (2005-2010)
- Since 2004 Birgitta has been the program coordinator for three study programs: Computer Science - Specialization in Systems Development,Web Development and System programming
- Course coordinator for the final year project in informatics (BSc), Concurrent programming (BSc), Cloud Computing (MSc), Software testing (BSc and MSc) and Distributed real-time systems (MSc)
- Other: Sofware Engineering (BSc), Scientific Theory (MSc), Embedded Systems (BSc), Research and Development (BSc)
Research
- 2015 - present, research leader for the DRTS (Distributed Real-Time Systems) research group
- 2000 - present, senior member of the DRTS (Distributed Real-Time Systems) research group
Projects
- 2017-2020 ELVIRA (member). ELVIRA is a EU / ISF project focusing on protection of critical infrastructures, in particular the power grid system.
- 2013 - 2018, TOCSYC (program manager). TOCSYC is a SIDUS project sponsored by KKS (30 MSEK). TOCSYC is a joint effort together with Mälardalen University, Swedish Instititute of Computer Science, Blekinge Institute of Technology and Karlstad University to address testing of non-functional characteristics such as performance efficiency, robustness and testability.
- 2013 - 2015, PILOT (project leader). A NFFP6 project sponsored by Vinnova (3,25 MSEK)and Saab Aeronautics (3,25 MSEK). This problem addresses the problem of combining model-driven development with the metrics for software testing that should be used in safety-critical systems such as avionics.
- 2012 - 2013, TOCSYC. A SIDUS step 1 project sponsored by Vinnova (0,5 MSEK). This was a joint effort between four universities and one institute to prepare an application for SIDUS step 2.
- 2011 - 2013, Platform Independent Software Testing (project leader). A NFFP5 project sponsored by Vinnova (3,3 MSEK) and Saab Aeronautics (3,3 MSEK).
- 2000-2009, Testability in Dynamic Real-Time Systems (PhD student). An ARTES project in collaboration with Enea.
Thesis
- Lindström, B. (2009), Testability of dynamic real-time systems, PhD thesis, Linköpings studies in science and technology, Dissertation No 1241, ISBN 978-91-7393-695-8.
Research
Publications
Projects
2020
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing
2020. Article.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-019-01286-2
2020 IEEE 13th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops: 23–27 March 2020 Porto, Portugal
2020. Conference paper.
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTW50294.2020.00016
Software testing, verification & reliability
2020. Article, editorial.
https://doi.org/10.1002/stvr.1726
2019
Software testing, verification & reliability
2019. Article. https://doi.org/10.1002/stvr.1667
Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science & Computer Engineering (FECS'19)
2019. Conference paper.
2018
2018. Report.
2018. Report.
2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS)
2018. Conference paper. https://doi.org/10.1109/QRS.2018.00058
2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW)
2018. Conference paper. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSTW.2018.00030
2017
2016
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Ongoing projects
Alliance of European Universities
The INGENIUM European University is an ambitious Alliance that brings together 10 Universities from 10 EU Member States, supported by a large group of associate organisations, ranging from regional and local governments to industry and civil society groups.
January 2023 - January 2026DOMINO - reducing the number of mutants
We are all heavily dependent on software in our daily life. Software control our cars, phones, bank accounts etc. Failures are frequent and sometimes catastrophic. Software testing aims to reveal faults before the software comes into use.
October 2017 - October 2025 InformaticsFinished projects
TOCSYC: Testing of Critical System Characteristics
TOCSYC is a research environment that combines four Swedish groups in software testing research to advance the knowledge of testing critical characteristics of complex embedded systems. The characteristics that TOCSYC address are performance efficiency, robustness and testability.
September 2013 - August 2018 InformaticsPlatform Independent Level of Testing (PILOT)
Model based development is used to increase software quality and software development productivity. Models are created at a platform independent level and then transformed to platform specific models by the use of a model compiler using the same principles as when source code is compiled into assembler.
September 2013 - March 2016 Informatics