SEKE'97: Information about Tutorials
SEKE'97: Information about Tutorials
Software quality evaluation and certification has been recognised as an important issue for software industry. As a consequence a number of projects have been launched worldwide, including projects investigating the availability and maturity of methods and techniques for assessment, verification or validation of software. Both, software engineers and software managers needs to be aware of the findings of those activities and their applicability.
The Capability and Maturity Model (CMM) of the Software Engineering Institute (and it's successsors Trillium and SPICE), the evaluation and certification procedure according to DIN 66 285, the ISO 9000 quality management standard series as well as the ISO 14598 product quality series are considered as the most relevant standards or defacto standards being applied today. The tutorial addresses also several national software process standards (IDEFx, V-Model, MERISE, SSADM or EUROMETHOD).
The methods and tools for the evaluation and assessment of software products and software processes are discussed in the tutorial in detail. Particular emphasis is given to the identification and selection of software characteristics and metrics as well as to the handling of evaluation methods and tools. In a situation where we have a huge amount of software metrics, the problem of identifying the right one and applying it correctly is an important issue. A practitioner's approach will be shown to solve this problem. Advantages and limitations of inspections, testing, and verification are discussed in order to make the attendees familiar with the maturity of evaluation techniques.
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