Cha-Q
Treats code changes, rather than snapshots, as the primary unit of analysis, developing tools to incrementally safeguard system quality, transfer changes across related systems, and sustain modifications throughout a system's lifecycle.
Website: soft.vub.ac.be/chaq Funding: IWT SBO (Strategic Basic Research Brussels) Timeline: 2013–2016 Additional PI: Serge Demeyer (University of Antwerp)
Devised tools and techniques that make changes — rather than snapshots — the primary unit of analysis during quality assurance, aiming to speed up the release process without sacrificing reliability. Most of the resulting prototype tools were open-sourced.