Software development:

• Cluster scalability evaluation - focus on evaluation of the clustering solutions of SAP and other competitive vendors. Apply the necessary academic knowledge to assess the different solutions in terms of performance, scalability, stability and extensibility.
• SPECj performance improvements – aiming to publish competitive SPECj AppServer performance results, running on a 32-way Sun machine.
• JNDI replication persistence – aiming to prototype a scalable replication mechanism of a naming directory in distributed environment
• Session failover – aiming to provide a showcase for successful application session failover and crash resistance of web applications

Quality aspects:

• Test setup automation – focusing on providing automated environment, based on imaging software and Blade hardware machines to streamline software testing and execution.
• Automated test case generation for maximum code coverage – static code analysis in order to generate maximum code coverage of the tested code. Aims to improve regression testing practices.
• Replication utilities – transferring 10+ GB DVD images over WAN, minimizing network traffic and using pattern recognition techniques to avoid redundant data transfers.
• Flow analysis of Java Code – infrastructure to perform static and flow analysis of java code with the aim to better represent and explain bad and good practices in java coding, identifying anti-patterns and misbehaviors.

Development Support:

• Supportability evaluation – evaluation of the time needed to resolve out-of-memory issues, using internal tools and techniques. Comparison with the other competitive products on the market.
• Request end-to-end tracing – minimizing and completely automating the statistical information needed to drill down into what a request actually does.
• Postmortem analysis infrastructure – infrastructure to provide people with the ability to conduct post-mortem analysis of functional and stability problems.