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Enhancing Functional Testing Efficiency in Industrial Large-Scale Applications: Pertinent Test Selection
Introduction In modern software development, application reliability relies on effective testing strategies. Altough unit and integration tests secure internal consistency, functional testing remains essential for validating user-facing behaviors. For large-scale applications like Alpha Tool, running thousands of functional tests is challenging: it consumes vast resources, slows down delivery, and complicates analysis. This article explores the challenge of large-scale functional testing in Alpha Tool and shows how selecting only needed test
CI/CD pipelines: good software development practice, but green?
Software development increasingly relies on continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) processes. At Berger-Levrault, dozens of software applications, comprising thousands of lines of code, are developing. In the context of climate change, it is becoming essential to understand and reduce the energy consumption of these processes. When discussing the energy consumption of applications, the focus is
Model-Based Analysis and Comprehensive BRMS Migration: IBM ODM to Drools Case Study
Introduction This study outlines the process for migrating a project from IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) to Drools, offering a comprehensive guide for a seamless transition. Both ODM and Drools are Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) that automate and manage business rules and decision-making logic within applications. A BRMS helps define, deploy, execute, monitor, and
BL.Predict New architecture: more security, confidentiality, availability and performance!
In the constantly evolving field of the Internet of Things, BL.Predict is continually striving to push back the boundaries to offer its customers innovative and reliable solutions. At the heart of this ambition is the transition from BL.Predict’s V1 to V2 architecture, a crucial step in our commitment to provide state-of-the-art platforms adapted to current
Webinar IA x Maintenance: Explore the benefits of AI applied to CMMS!
Discover our new Webinar: Explore the benefits of AI applied to CMMS! On Thursday, September 19 – 10:30 am to 11:30 Christophe Bortolaso, Applied Research Manager de l’équipe BL Research (DRIT) and his colleague Laurent Truscello, Product & Innovations Manager (CARL Berger-Levrault), invites you to take part in the Webinar “Explore the benefits of artificial
Enhancing Prompt Engineering using Model-Driven Engineering Techniques
In the fascinating field of artificial intelligence, an important discipline is emerging: “Prompt Engineering“. In a time where machines possess the ability to understand and generate text and code, focusing on prompt engineering becomes crucial to enhance the effectiveness and significance of interactions between humans and AI models specifically Large Language Models (LLMs). While many
Best Paper Award to Gabriel: Modest-Pharo, a collaborative work between Berger-Levrault & Inria
Gabriel Darbord started his Ph.D. two years ago in the Evref team at Inria, a joint project team with Berger-Levrault, supervised by Anne Etien (Pr.) and Nicolas Anquetil (MCF). His thesis focuses on the area of test generation, an essential component in the software development lifecycle. His research work is in partnership between: University of
Integrating 3D geospatial data
Being able to create unified views of all kinds of geospatial data (2D, 3D, and semantic data) from the BIM and CIM domains is essential for decision-making in urban development projects and in a CMMS context. Our objective is to provide users with integrated and navigable views of available representation of urban objects through a
Not all Hallucinations are Good to Throw Away When it Comes to Legal Abstractive Summarization
The extensive use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for summarization tasks brings new challenges. One of the most important is related to the LLMs’ tendency to generate hallucinations, i.e., texts that give the impression of being fluid and natural, despite their lack of fidelity and nonsensical nature. Hallucinations can be factual: a source of knowledge,
Clément Colin Ph.D. thesis defense : “Multi-scale geospatial data management and visualisation applied for CMMS”
Tuesday 18th of June at 10h a.m. Paris time, Clément Colin, Ph.D. Candidate has defended his thesis named “Multi-scale geospatial data management and visualisation applied for CMMS”. His thesis defense took place at the conference room of the Faculty “IUT Lumière Lyon 2” in Villeurbanne, France. Take a look at the summary below : Summary
Extracting services from legacy software system
Let’s explore together the recent poster created by Soufyane Labsari and published about extracting services from legacy software systems. This work is done in collaboration with Inria.
Forum for advances in visualization and visual analytics – VIS 2025 (Vienna – Austria)
IFIP/SOCOLNET – Hybrid Human-AI Collaborative Networks (Porto – Portugal)
La Mêlée Numérique – Artificial Revolutions (Toulouse – France)
Berger-Levrault strengthens its ties with AI startups!
We are proud to announce that we have joined Hub France IA, the largest association dedicated to artificial intelligence in France. This network now brings together more than 250 members—companies, startups, research laboratories, and institutions—who share the same goal: to accelerate the development and adoption of AI in France and Europe. Getting closer to the
Celebrating New PhDs from the BL.Research Team!
At Berger-Levrault, research is more than a mission—it’s a shared adventure. As the new academic year begins, we are proud to celebrate the success of four of our colleagues from the BL.Research team, who have reached a major milestone in their scientific journeys: the defense of their doctoral theses. These achievements are the result of
Hamza Safri Ph.D. thesis defense: “Federated learning for the IoT : Application for Industry 4.0”
Thuesday 24th June at 3pm Paris time, Hamza Safri, Ph.D. Candidate has defended his thesis named “Federated learning for the IoT: Application for Industry 4.0”. His thesis defense took place at the Inria Minatec Grenoble, Grenoble, France. Take a look at the summary below. Keywords: Model generalization, predictive maintenance, industrial IoT, federated learning, edge network,
ESUG 2025: Six contributions and 2 prizes for the Software Engineering Lab team!
Congratulations to our PhDs Nicolas Hlad, Aless Hosry, Benoit Verhaeghe and Pascal Zaragoza from Berger-Levrault’s BL.Research team for their participation in the 2025 edition of the ESUG (European Smalltalk User Group) conference! This year’s conference took place from July 1-4 in Gdansk, Poland. The theme was innovation in Smalltalk technologies and their use in software
Julien Breton Ph.D. thesis defense: “Extraction and formalization of regulatory industrial maintenance knowledge from semi-structured corpus data”
Friday, 27th June at 1.30 pm Paris time, Julien Breton, Ph.D. Candidate has defended his thesis named “Extraction and formalization of regulatory industrial maintenance knowledge from semi-structured corpus data”. His thesis defense took place at the IRIT research laboratory, Toulouse, France. Take a look at the summary below. Keywords: Legal compliance,Industrial maintenance, Norm extraction,LLM (Large
New White Paper – AI for maintenance! Challenges, Opportunities and Case Studies
How is artificial intelligence transforming maintenance practices today? What are the concrete opportunities for equipment, infrastructure and fleet managers? The new white paper published by CARL Berger-Levrault offers a rich and accessible insight into these strategic questions. Entitled “AI at the service of maintenance: challenges, opportunities and case studies”, this document summarizes experience in the
New White Paper – Agentic AI, a Software and Societal Revolution!
Research at Berger-Levrault is tackling a new frontier in artificial intelligence: that of (partially) autonomous agents capable of reasoning, planning, collaborating, orchestrating and learning in complex business environments. Our new white paper, “Beyond automation – How agentic AI is transforming the software industry”, shares with you an in-depth analysis of this ongoing technological revolution, its
Clément talks at BIM World 2025 on the future of augmented maintenance using BIM models
At BIM World 2025, held in Paris on April 2-3, Clément Colin, our research engineer in BL Research team, spoke at a workshop dedicated to Digital Twins, alongside Laurent Truscello, Product Marketing Manager at Carl Berger-Levrault. The theme of their talk: “GEM & GMAO – Valuing and increasing the use of your BIM models for
