Prof. Dr. Tibor Gyimóthy and his colleagues, who work at the Department of Software Engineering within the Institute of Informatics at the Faculty of Science and Informatics, have made major scientific achievements in a number of significant research fields.

Due to their research activities related to the different tools and technologies supporting software quality assurance, now various tools are available for source code analysis in several programming languages. In addition, the tools for software architecture reconstruction and software development enable the users to gain more information about the weaknesses of software and the problematic modules on code level. Relying on the software quality indicators, the aim of the software quality research group is to create a criteria system for providing a clear and understandable description of the quality of software.

The research group also conducts research activities in the field of M2M (Machine-to-Machine) solutions and embedded systems. M2M solutions are mainly utilized in telemedicine and agriculture. The research group has developed a reference architecture and methodology which can speed up the development process of M2M applications and reduce their total development costs. The group also have remarkable achievements in integrating telemedicine sensors into mobile phones and in transferring GSM based data adjusted to M2M systems. The researchers are also involved in developing software for embedded systems: they have developed energy consumption optimization software solutions for XScale processors.

The researchers of the Department participate in developing open source systems as well. They have been working on the development and optimization of the WebKit mobile browser engine, on the optimization of gcc, one of the most widespread open-source C compilers, and on its porting to the Symbian system. Due to several successfully accomplished industrial research projects, the researchers have also gained significant experience with the Drupal content management system.