Grant: Collaborative Research and Development Grants

Preventing environmental pollution and reporting environmental impact is an important task for manufacturing*facilities. ERA environmental (ERA) provides software solutions to cope with the challenges that are*associated with quantifying the environmental impact and simplifying manufacturing facilities' regulatory*reporting. The software solutions from ERA have been widely leveraged by companies globally.*Due to the success of ERA's software solution, a larger number and more diversified companies start to*become ERA's clients, leading the software system to face the challenges of ever higher quality and efficiency. Not just for ERA, the quality and efficiency of ultra-large-scale systems have been an emerging and an extremely important topic in*software engineering research and practice.*In order to improve quality and efficiency of ERA's systems, we plan to develop a toolset, consisting of*monitoring infrastructures, supporting infrastructure, analysis models, evaluational metrics and tools validated*through rigorous empirical studies that are specifically designed to improve the quality and efficiency of ERA's*systems. The outcomes of this work will advance the state-of-the-art in quality and efficiency assurance*activities in software engineering for large software systems and improve both the product and the engineering*methodology in ERA.