Leadership in accreditation of Software Engineering degree programs in two continents (North America and Europe

🇨🇦 In Canada in 2009, I chaired a team of professors during the accreditation assessments of the Software Engineering degree program in the University of Calgary. The accreditation was executed by the Accreditation Board of EngineersCanada.

🇹🇷 Later on in Turkiye in 2014, I once again chaired a team of professors during the accreditation assessments of the Software Engineering degree program of Atilim University in Ankara. The accreditation was executed by the Accreditation Board of MÜDEK, the Turkish Association for Evaluation and Accreditation of Engineering Programs. That accreditation was done under the EUR-ACE framework, the European quality label for engineering degree programms at Bachelor and Master Level.

Offering open-source repository of modern Software Testing courseware:

When I started teaching software testing in 2007, there were not many publicly-available testing courseware for software testing educators to adapt and customize. Even for the existing testing lab exercises developed and/or used by the educators, we observed that there are various drawbacks, e.g.: 

• They are not usually kept up-to-date with the most recent testing tools and technologies, e.g., JUnit

• They are not built based on realistic/real-world Systems Under Test (SUTs), but rather use small SUTs

A brief survey on this topic has been reported as an experience paper.

The above needs motived myself and my collaborators to develop a large-scale open repository of software testing laboratory courseware since 2008. 

The courseware has been used by over 50 instructors in their software-testing courses in more than 15 countries worldwide so far. According to many feedbacks that we have received from software-testing educators and students, they find these labs useful and effective for learning. 

There is a separate website for that open course-ware.