“The Making of Cloud Applications” accepted at ESEC/FSE!

Our mixed-method study on software development for the cloud has been accepted as a full research paper for ESEC/FSE 2015! In this paper, titled “The Making of Cloud Applications – An Empirical Study on Software Development for the Cloud”, we interviewed 25 developers from startups, SMEs, and large enterprises on the opportunities and challenges of building and deploying software in a cloud-based environment. Additionally, we report on the results of an email survey with close to 300 respondents.

You can already read a pre-print version of this paper online.

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s.e.a.l. member Joel Scheuner to receive semester award

We are excited to announce that Joel Scheuner has received a University of Zurich semester award in the fall semester 2014 for his excellent bachelor thesis Cloud WorkBench – A Web-Based Framework for Benchmarking Cloud Services.

You can read a CloudCom paper about his work, watch this screencast, or check out the tool he built from GitHub.

Open Position: Research Assistant (40%)

We are currently hiring!

We are looking for a master student (40%) to help us with programming tasks in the context of the FP7 research project CloudWave. Please find details here.

Benchmarking Infrastructure-as-a-Service Cloud Providers with Cloud Workbench

Supplementary to our recent paper at CoudCom’14 introducing Cloud Workbench, we have now also created a short video that illustrates the main features of the platform:

Some New Open Topics for Bachelor / Master Projects and Theses

I have a few interesting new open topics suitable for bachelor theses, master’s theses, or master projects available in the wider area of software engineering and cloud computing. Please see my web page for details:

Topics on jCloudScale

Topics on Feedback-Driven Development

Topics on Cloud Benchmarking

Please contact Philipp Leitner if you are interested in any of these topics, and want to learn more!