Professor Per Runeson

Research

My research area is software processes in an industrial context, with a particular focus set on the verification and validation processes. This involves improvements to the inspection and testing efforts. The research is based on empirical methods; experiments, case studies and surveys. 

Recently, I am appointed a special researcher position in software engineering by the Swedish Research Council, 2005-2007.

I have published more than 70 papers in international journals and conferences and is the coauthor of a book on experimentation in software engineering. I am ranked 13th worldwide (tied) among systems and software engineering scholars by R. Glass. 2002/2003 I was a Fulbright Scholar for Visiting Lecture/Research at Washington State University.

I am member of the editorial board of Empirical Software Engineering, member of  program committees for several international conferences (EASE, ISSRE, Metrics, ECBS) and is a referee for international journals (IEEE TSE, IST).

Teaching

I am teaching general software engineering courses, as well as more specific software testing courses. 1997-2001 I was responsible for designing and leading the Software Engineering BSc program at Lund University. I am awarded Excellent Teaching Practice at Lund University, see further my Teaching portfolio. 

ETS200 Software Testing, 2006

ETS140/141 The Software Engineering Process, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006

ETS311 Large-Scale Software Development, 2004

ETS032 Software Development for Large Systems, 2002, 2003

ETS690 Software Quality, 2001 

ETS660 Software Verification, 2000 

Academic leadership

Since 2001 I am leading the Software Engineering Research Group, currently being supervisor of three PhD students and assistant advisor of five other PhD students. SERG is ranked 12th by R. Glass ranking of systems and software engineering research institutes. I am a member of the FIME research board and member of the management team of the LUCAS project as well as of the FRIVA project.