Dr Ruzanna Chitchyan

Summary

Biography

I am a senior lecturer in Software Engineering at the University of Bristol and an EPSRC fellow on Living with Environmental Change. I work on software and requirements engineering for sustainability. 

Prior to joining Bristol, I worked as a lecturer in Software Engineering at the Department of Informatics at the University of Leicester (2011 to 2017) and a research associate/assistant at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Lancaster (2004-2011), where I also gained a PhD in Computer Science (2007).

Teaching

As a full-time EPSRC research fellow, I currently have no teaching responsibilities.

Past teaching:

• Requirements Engineering and Professional Practice (2014 to 2016, taught at the University of Leicester) - a first year module on introduction to Requirements Engineering, covering:
• Overview of Requirements Engineering (e.g., scope, stakeholders, practice);
• Requirements Elicitation (e.g., interviews, observation, focus groups), and
• Requirements Representation (e.g., use cases, goal models, business processes, activity models)
• Security in Requirements (e.g., misuse cases, anti-goals, obstacle analysis).
• CO7207: Generative Development (2012 to 2016, taught at the University of Leicester) - an MSc module on new development techniques to cope with size and complexity increase in software systems, covering: 
• Model Driven Development,
• Aspect-Oriented Development, and
• Software Product Lines.
• CO7501: Individual Project (2013 to 2017, taught at the University of Leicester) - and MSc final project module.

Keywords

• Software Engineering
• Requirements Engineering
• Energy
• Energy Systems
• Socio-technical systems

Memberships

Organisations

Department of Computer Science

Cabot Institute

Other sites

• Computerscience

Recent publications

• Ullah, F, Edwards, M, Ramdhany, R, Chitchyan, R, Babar, MA & Rashid, A, 2018, ‘Data exfiltration: A review of external attack vectors and countermeasures’. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, vol 101., pp. 18-54
• Penzenstadler, B, Duboc, L, Venters, C, Betz, S, Seyff, N, Wnuk, C, Chitchyan, R, Easterbrook, S & Becker, C, 2018, ‘Software Engineering for Sustainability: Find the Leverage Points!’. IEEE Software.
• Becker, C, Chitchyan, R, Betz, S & McCord, C, 2018, ‘Trade-off Decisions Across Time in Technical Debt Management: A Systematic Literature Review’. in: International Conference on Technical Debt,Gothenburg, Sweden, May 27-28, 2018. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Cazzola, W, Chitchyan, R, Rashid, A & Shaqiri, A, 2018, ‘μ-DSU: A Micro-Language Based Approach to Dynamic Software Updating’. Computer Languages, Systems and Structures, vol 51., pp. 71-89
• Anthonysamy, P, Rashid, A & Chitchyan, R, 2017, ‘Privacy Requirements: Present Future’. in: 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society Track, ICSE-SEIS 2017, Bueons Aires, Argentina, May 20-28, 2017., pp. 13-22
• Venters, CC, Seyff, N, Becker, C, Betz, S, Chitchyan, R, Duboc, L, McIntyre, D & Penzenstadler, B, 2017, ‘Characterising Sustainability Requirements: A New Species Red Herring or Just an Odd Fish?’. in: 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society Track, ICSE-SEIS 2017, Bueons Aires, Argentina, May 20-28, 2017., pp. 3-12
• Gibson, M, Venters, C, Duboc, L, Betz, S, Chitchyan, R, Silva, VP, Penzenstadler, B & Seyff, N, 2017, ‘Mind the chasm: A UK fisheye lens view of sustainable software engineering’.
• Chitchyan, R, Groher, I & Noppen, J, 2017, ‘Uncovering sustainability concerns in software product lines’. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, vol 29.
• Murkin, J, Chitchyan, R & Ferguson, D, 2017, ‘Goal-Based Automation of Peer-to-Peer Electricity Trading’. in: From Science to Society: New Trends in Environmental Informatics. Springer, Cham, pp. 139-151
• Rashid, A, Naqvi, SAA, Ramdhany, R, Edwards, MJ, Chitchyan, R & Babar, MA, 2016, ‘Discovering "unknown known" security requirements’. in: Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2016, Austin, TX, USA, May 14-22, 2016., pp. 866-876

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