I am a Lecturer in Software Engineering at the University of the West of Scotland.
My research efforts are aimed at building theory on what it takes to develop quality software. I have studied process models, like CMMI, a couple of ISO standards. I have also researched in agile development environments with a technical debt viewpoint. Currently, I am working on developing and evaluating secure software architectures, and in testing ubiquitous and context-aware software systems.

“Software is eating the world”. Software is pervasive and every time more omnipresent in our lives. By 2017 there will be five devices per person. As a consequence, as software gains visibility also does its software errors and costs. Unfortunately, there is still no hard-proven solution to build quality software. By most accounts, software development projects tend to fail, and the software development industry and its customers have become accustomed to this. Even though there is a vast literature in software engineering research, many sub-domains are showing a gap between the state of the art and state of the practice. The industry-academia GAP has lead to a growing lack of trust between industry and academia. In the past decade, a portion of the software engineering research community has embraced the tenants of Empirical Research. Experimental software engineering brings the application of the scientific method to our field. I believe that Empirical methods will enable practitioners to make informed decisions based on well-grounded knowledge. I aim to generate empirical knowledge on software development with an emphasis on developing technologies that the software development industry can apply.