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Brandt - Research
As well as developing software tools, Brandt also undertake research work with partner institutions. On this page you will find some of the (public) papers that we have published.
3-D Coordinate Estimation Model
This document describes some of the research work and software development
undertaken by Brandt, supported by a MIDAS grant. Brandt worked closely with
an academic from University of Ulster on this image processing project to
extract three dimensional data from photographs. The document describes the
mathematical and image processing algorithms used in the software we
developed.
To download the paper (in PDF format), click here.
Brandt paper to the Localisation Research Centre
On Sept 27th 2007, Brandt presented a paper on Shadow™ to the LRC.
The paper entitled "An alternative approach to software testing to enable SimShip for the localisation market, using Shadow™" was delivered at the LRC Conference, at European Foundation, Dublin.
To download the paper (in PDF format), click here.
Brandt paper on Shadow™
This is a shorter version of the above paper. Abstract - We believe that our approach to automated software testing is novel. We can test several language instances of a product simultaneously,
either through direct engineer interaction or by a record/playback script. The Shadow™ application can manage a situation
where the user interface of the product under test is slightly different in layout, either due to localisation of the
different versions, or due to the original language version running on different platforms. In our pilot studies,
we examine the effect of separating out the functions of a test engineer into a product specialist and QA specialist.
Our testing methodology outputs a set of screenshots of the products under test in each language. The screenshots can be
used by a translator for linguistic/consistency QA or in product documentation. We performed a comparative analysis of the
automation tool Winrunner with the Shadow™ testing process
To download the paper (in DOC format), click here.
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