The objective of the axe is to improve all phases of software development in order to increase their quality, their abilities and their capacity to evolve (autonomic computing).
The teams propose methods and tools to design and develop services, software and information systems that must be able to:

• collaborate with each other (communicating, sharing);
• adapt to the context of use (individual, collective, environment),
• evolve over time (sustainability, evolutions),
• assessing functional and non-functional quality (safety and security).

In order to achieve these objectives, it is necessary to review the positioning of design and development activities as well as the validation and security methods of systems and software.