International Conference on Software Quality 2007

Huge amount of ground work is needed to choose a right framework in an environment where the frequency of changes in the application is more. Combination of hybrid and modular driven framework, named as converge driven approach is proposed to verify the functional specification of the application under test and also the performance and regression testing to ensure that the framework able to handle various changes in software. Bio: Valavdan Ramamurthy hails from industry city, Coimbatore. With 12 years of industry experience, he carries a professional certification in telecommunication, hardware and real-time simulation. His strengths are service oriented architecture, embedded system, automation framework and test automation and test management Back to top Session F4: Speaker: Mohanned Zarour, Dr. Jean-Marc Deshamais and Dr. Alain Abran A Framework to Compare Software Process Assessment Methods for Small Organizations Summary: Learn about a proposed framework to compare software process assessment (SPA) methods dedicated to small and very small organizations through a set of characteristics. These characteristics provide the users of this framework with useful and informative data about the compared SPA methods. Such comparisons are useful for both designers of new assessment methods and users (organizations) that want to start an improvement initiative and need to decide which method to use in assessing the current organization’s processes. The proposed framework is applied to seven SPA methods dedicated for small and very small organizations. Abstract: It is a challenge for small and very small organizations to adopt software process improvement models and the associated assessment methods to improve their software process. A number of customized assessment methods based on SPI models, such as CMM/CMMI and ISO 15504, have been proposed to fit the needs of such organizations. To help them select an assessment method relevant to their needs, this paper presents a framework to compare SPI methods dedicated to small and very small organizations?. Bio:: Mohammad Zarour is a Jordanian and permanent resident in Canada. He is a PhD student at ETS, University of Quebec with undergraduate and graduate degrees (master) in Computer Science, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. His research interest is Software Process Assessment and Improvement. Mohammed is a member of the Canadian delegation of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 Working Group 24 – Software Life Cycle for Very Small Enterprises, Feb-2007. His co-authored Very Small Enterprises (VSE) Quality Process Assessment and Initiating Software Process Improvement with a light model for Small Enterprise: Our Experience presented at 3rd International Workshop on Quality of Information and Communication Technologies, Cuba, 2007. Back to top 1: 30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions: Session G1: Speaker: Be Announced Session G2: Speaker: Mike Kress ISO 25012: An International Standard for Data Quality Summary: Managing and enhancing the quality of data is essential in today’s interoperable world. The quality of data from computer systems from various organizations, agencies. institutions that are dependent on the data is often unplanned and therefore unknown. There is a need for homogenous criteria for definitions, classifications, authorization, and cancellation procedures. The purpose of the ISO 25012 international standard is to prompt creators of large and small scale data bases to observe predefined criteria, which will enable them to evaluate the quality of data, set up integrated and interoperable data bases, reduce ambiguity, avoid redundancy, promote ease of data maintenance, and promote reliable, secure data bases. High quality data serve authorized end-users, and facilitate the migration among computer systems when different data bases are merged. Mike Kress explains the evolution of IS