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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
o Quality Week 2000 - Call for Participation
o The New Yorker's Tribute to Y2K
o "It Depends" by Johanna Rothman
o European SEPG 2000 - Call for Participation
o This Month in the "new" WorldSafety News
o Object-Oriented Software Quality Seminar
o "CMM in Practice: Processes for Executing Software Projects at
Infosys" by Pankaj Jalote now available
o Second International Symposium on Constructing Software
Engineering Tools (CoSET'2000) - Call for Participation
o 14th Brazilain Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES'2000) -
Call for Participation
o Season's Greetings, from Software Research and SR/Institute
o TTN SUBMITTAL, SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
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C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N
DOUBLE CONFERENCE
13th Annual International Software & Internet Quality Week 2000
International Software International Internet
Quality Week 2000 Quality Week 2000
30 May - 2 June 2000
San Francisco Bay Area, California
CONFERENCE THEME: New Century, New Beginnings
QW2000 is the 13th in the continuing series of International Conferences
that focus on advances in software test technology, quality control,
risk management, software safety, and test automation.
This year marks the introduction of the QW2000 Double Conference.
Parallel to Software Quality Week 2000, Internet Quality Week 2000 will
draw specific attention to Quality Issues of the Internet, such as e-
commerce, web site testing and web site quality.
We are soliciting Full Day and 1/2 Day Tutorials, 45- and 90-minute
presentations and panel discussions on any area of QA, Testing and
Automation, and related software and internet quality issues. Real-life
experiences or "How To" stories are particularly encouraged. Special
consideration will be given to new and emerging software quality
technologies.
To help the Advisory Board facilitate the selection process, please
submit your proposal by December 31!
Abstracts and Proposals Due: 21 January 2000
Notification of Participation: 25 February 2000
Camera Ready Materials Due: 31 March 2000
Exhibition space and sponsorship opportunities for QW2000 are also
available.
Of the selected papers/presentations, the winner of the QW2000 Best
Paper Award will receive $2000 cash, and the winner of the QW2000 Best
Presentation Award will be invited to present his/her talk at QWE2000 in
Brussels, Belgium.
Questions? Check out the QW2000 WebSite, at
<http://www.soft.com/QualWeek/QW2K/>, call [+1] (415) 861-2800, or send
E-mail to qw@soft.com.
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The New Yorker's Tribute to Y2K
We tried to get rights to reprint this lovely ode by Calvin Trillin, "Oh
Y2K, Yes Y2K, How Come It Has To End This Way," which appears on Page 87
of the 13 December 1999 issue of The New Yorker. Alas, we could not
quite get the reprint permissions in time for this issue. You'll just
have to dig it out of the newsstands on your own.
Trillin's poem deals with Y2K and is a lot of fun. After going on for
nearly a full page about the possible impact of the Y2K event, it ends
(and here we quote a fragment only, which is permitted with attribution)
as follows.
But one fear makes us say, "Oy vey!"
And here's the fear we can't allay:
God's thinking of pulling the plug,
And not with a bang but a bug.
Rarely does the software quality field get such attention.
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It Depends
(c) 1999 Johanna Rothman
Johanna Rothman observes and consults on managing high
technology product development. You can reach her at
jr@jrothman.com, www.jrothman.com.
"The Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything
is 42" -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Some people think there's a specific answer to questions such as:
- "What's the correct staffing ratio for developers to testers in a
software development organization?"
- "What's the best project management software?"
- "When should I create a branch (separate source code line) for this
release?"
I wish there were One Right Answer. It would make product development
much easier. Usually though, the only right answer is "It depends". The
answer you need depends on your situation: what you're doing, how
quickly you're trying to do it, the culture you work in, and the results
you desire and can tolerate.
In public forums, when I give the "It depends" answer, sometimes people
get angry with me. They think I'm trying to hold some information back.
I'm not; I just can't give them an answer without knowing more about
their environment. for example, when someone asks a question about
developer-tester ratios, I now think they're asking: "How do I estimate
the effort needed to do to test this product, and how many people do I
need to do that work?" To do that, I first analyze the project, to see
what it will take to do the testing:
- What kind of user interface does it have? An API (application
programming interface) allows the testers to separate the testing into
pieces, which can make it easier to test. A GUI without a well-defined
API generally requires more testers. In general, a product without
well-defined boundaries, such as an API, requires more testing than a
product with well-defined boundaries. Testing exposes the lack of
definition late in the product development cycle, which causes more
rework and more testing.
- How much new product are we building? Are we re-architecting the
product, and adding significant features? Or, are we filling in the
feature set from the basics that are already there? A re-architecture
effort often requires more testers.
- How large or complex is the product? Sometimes, the larger the
product, the more testing is required. The more complex the product,
the more testing is required. If the complexity is hidden from the
user, even more testing may be required.
- How experienced are the product's users? A sophisticated user base may
mean we choose to do different kinds of testing, which will affect the
type and number of testers. A novice user base may require much
testing in specific areas, with portions of the product not tested as
thoroughly.
Once I've considered the product, I then think about the people
available to do the development and testing:
- How experienced is the development staff? Do the developers know how
to create and run unit tests? Are the developers already doing design
reviews, code inspections, and individual testing before the product
reaches the system test phase?
- How experienced is the testing staff? Do they understand the product's
architecture and design? Do they know how to extend the tests that
already exist? Do they understand the product?
- What tools do the developers and testers have? Are they creating their
infrastructure as well as creating the product? For the testers, is
there a regression test suite? How much of the regression testing is
automated? Do we understand how well it tests the current project?
Finally, I consider the project and its importance to the company and to
its customers:
- What is the risk of doing less testing? Will this software be used to
run airplanes or heart implant devices, or is it a desktop application
that can be easily rebooted? The more crucial the=20 software is to
people and our environment, the more testing I expect to plan and
perform.
- How much time do we have? Are we planning the testing at the beginning
of the project, where we can consider automation to cut down on test
repetition time, or is the testing supposed to start next week?
- How good do we want it? What are our release criteria? What are we
willing to spend on the total product development effort?
Many organizations tend to have similar projects, so they go through
this exercise once, and keep their discovered answer as a rule of thumb.
That's fine, until they create a different product, have a different
team, or encounter a different situation. Then their rule of thumb
doesn't work anymore.
When you're looking for a standard answer, consider whether there really
is One Right Answer. You may need to analyze the problem before you can
give an answer. It all depends-and what it really depends on is the
analysis you perform of the tradeoffs.
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Call for Participation
**This call for participation and relevant proposal forms are available at
http://www.espi.co.uk.
European SEPG 2000:
A New Commitment to Process Improvement
5-8 June 2000
Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky,
AMSTERDAM
The European SEPGTM conference, now in its fifth year, is the annual
gathering of software process improvement professionals in Europe.
Having started from modest roots in 1996, the event has earned
tremendous support and respect for its high quality technical programme
and ever-increasing audience.
The European SEPG focuses on real-world experiences of organisations
implementing software process improvement. It provides an in-depth
overview of the approach for those contemplating a new initiative or
just starting out, and practical guidance for those already on the
process improvement path.
This year, we will build on feedback from delegates and presenters at
previous events and reflect the growing process maturity of software
organisations within Europe. The event will cater equally for those with
little knowledge or experience of software process improvement, right
through to high maturity practitioners who want to move their
organisations still further upwards in their improvement efforts.
Deadline for proposals: Friday, 14th January 2000
PROPOSALS
We are seeking proposals for paper presentations, tutorials, and panel
discussions. The conference will reflect the current state of practice
in software process improvement, from within Europe and beyond. We are
particularly interested in receiving proposals from individuals who can
demonstrate personal experience, covering techniques, approaches,
problems and solutions in the implementation of software process
improvement. Proposals covering productivity gains in software
development as a result of process improvement, are also welcome.
Any submissions directly relevant to software process improvement will
be considered , but the following topics are of special interest:
Key Process Areas
level 2 (requirements management, project management, subcontract
management, quality assurance, configuration management); level 3
(organisational process focus and definition, training, integrated
software management, product engineering, intergroup coordination, peer
reviews); level 4 (quantitative process management, software quality
management); level 5 (defect prevention, technology change management,
process change management).
Practical Issues in SPI
Managing SPI (SPI project and programme management, risk management
etc); Organising SPI (SEPGs, process improvement teams etc); the human
side of change (motivation, resistance, total involvement and
commitment); communication as a critical success factor for SPI
(mechanisms, methods, messages); The training imperative; managing
improvement risk; The improvement process (IDEAL and other models);
small-scale SPI (improvement by small increments, improvement in small
organisations); SPI in a multi-site context; Integrating SPI with other
improvements (in software methods and tools, hardware, systems
engineering, workforce capability etc).
Software Procurement
Managing subcontractors (requirements management, contract management,
outsourcing management, risk management); suppliers (make/buy
evaluation, supplier selection, supplier capability evaluation, supplier
relationships).
Measurement
What metrics? (product and process metrics, key performance/improvement
indicators, interim profiles, mini/light assessments, quality system
reviews, measurement as a common feature in all KPAs, statistical
process control); the measurement programme (designing, implementing and
maintaining it, establishing and managing the metrics database); sizing
and estimating.
Business Context
Senior executive commitment (how we get it, how they demonstrate it);
SPI and the bottom line (business goals, value added, return on
investment); inter-company benchmarking; certification and litigation
issues.
Special Issues
Management issues (programme management, product and product-line
management); technical issues (systematic reuse, corporate intranets
for SPI); model integration (software, systems engineering, IPD,
people, acquisition etc).
PRESENTATIONS
Presentation sessions are for 40 minutes which includes time for
questions and answers. In particular, we are interested in papers which
present practical tools (forms, checklists, procedures, etc.), empirical
data (metrics) and actual results of applying software process
improvement techniques. Accepted papers will be included in the
conference proceedings.
Presentation proposals should include:
- 1-2 page abstract of the presentation (N.B. abstracts of less than 1 page
cannot be reviewed)
- 80 word summary
- focus of the presentation, i.e. which KPA or special topic heading
- audience level (getting started, intermediate, high maturity)
- 100 -150 word profile of each presenter
- completed Proposal Form (available from ESPI web site; see below)
TUTORIALS
Half day tutorial proposals should include:
- 1-2 page abstract, containing an overview of the tutorial
- 80 word summary under the heading 'Learning objectives'
- 20 words under the heading 'who should attend'
- audience level (getting started, intermediate, high maturity)
- category of tutorial (KPA, Practical issues, Software procurement,
Measurement, Business context, Special issues)
- 100 - 150 word profile of the presenter (and co-presenter if applicable)
- completed Proposal Form (available from ESPI web site; see below)
PANELS
Panel proposals should include:
- 1-2 page abstract
- 150 word summary
- audience level (getting started, intermediate, high maturity)
- list of proposed participants, organisations and job titles together with
their status (confirmed, interested, not yet contacted)
- contingency plans
- completed Proposal Form (available from ESPI web site; see below)
BIRDS-OF-A-FEATHER SESSIONS
Birds-of-a-Feather sessions take place during the early evening at the
European SEPG, and are available on a first-come, first-served basis to
any delegate at the event. These sessions may involve formal
presentations, round-table discussions or an open forum with no specific
agenda. To apply for a session, submit your proposal (title, short
description and format) as early as possible.
EXHIBITION
The European SEPG will again host an exhibition of organisations
providing products and services to support software process improvement.
Details will shortly be announced on the ESPI Foundation web site:
www.espi.co.uk.
VOLUNTEERS
Volunteers are needed to assist with the management of the event, in the
role of room monitors, session moderators, and other tasks within the
event. Volunteers should offer two full days' effort, and in return we
will waive the registration fee for the other two days. Unfortunately we
will not be able to refund travel and accommodation expenses.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Format
Proposals should be sent in Word or Text format, by email or post (on
disk). Please ensure that word counts are adhered to; they will be
enforced by editing if necessary. (N.B. edited versions may not be
verified with the authors before publishing, so it is much preferable
that your proposal is precise!)
The Proposal Form may be submitted in advance of your abstract, to
notify us of your intention. One form must be completed for each
presentation, tutorial or panel submitted. A copy of the relevant form
(presentation, tutorial, panel) can be downloaded from the ESPI
Foundation web site, at www.espi.co.uk.
Additional requirements If your proposal is accepted onto the programme,
we will require the following additional materials to be submitted by
the due dates:
- photograph of each presenter 24th March
- logo for each company represented 24th March
- written paper if available 14th April
- final copy of Powerpoint presentation slides 14th April
Contact
Proposals and enquiries should be addressed to:
European SEPG Conference Co-ordinator
Email: esepgproposals@espi.co.uk
Address:
ESPI Foundation
1 North House
Milton Keynes
MK1 1SW
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1908 630500
Fax: +44 (0) 1908 630700
Web: http://www.espi.co.uk
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Seminar at the National Research Council of Canada
OBJECT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE QUALITY
February 7th, 2000, Ottawa
This seminar is a continuation of NRC's successful series on software
engineering. The focus is on measuring and improving the quality of
object-oriented software. Leading experts will be talking on the state-
of-the-practice, as well as presenting the state-of-the-art.
Speakers include: Robert Binder on OO testing, Chris Kemerer on the
adoption of OO technology, Dave Card on quantitative management of the
design process, Khaled El Emam on OO metrics, Taghi Khoshgoftaar on
quality modeling and prediction, Saida Benlarbi on framework tailoring,
and Rama Munikoti on business value.
The seminar is targeted at both practitioners currently implementing
object-oriented techniques, or those who are planning to, as well as
researchers in the object-oriented area.
Further information on the seminar and on registration can be found at:
http://wwwsel.iit.nrc.ca/ooseminar
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A new book has come out that might be of interest to you.
Title: CMM IN PRACTICE:
Processes for executing software projects at Infosys
Author: Pankaj Jalote
Publisher: Addison Wesley (SEI Series in Software Engineering)
The book describes an actual implementation of the CMM framework (up to
level 4) and is based on my experience in implementing the CMM in a
large software organization.
For more info visit www.awl.com/cseng/titles/0-201-61626-2/ or
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201616262/ref=rm_item
I hope you will find the book useful in your work.
Best,
Pankaj
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C A L L for P A P E R S
The Second International Symposium on
Constructing Software Engineering Tools (CoSET'2000)
5th June 2000
A one day workshop co-located with the
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'2000)
Limerick, Ireland, 4-11 June 2000
Conference: http://www.ul.ie/~icse2000/
Symposium: http://www.itacs.uow.edu.au/~jon/coset2k/
Automated tools play an important role in the promotion and adoption of
software engineering methods and processes, both within a particular
organisation and within the software engineering community generally.
The development of these tools is itself a significant software
engineering task, requiring a considerable investment of time and
resources. There are a large number of different kinds of automated
software engineering tool, variously known as Computer Aided Software
Engineering (CASE), Computer Aided Method Engineering (CAME), Integrated
Project Support Environments (IPSE), Software Engineering Environments
(SEE), and meta-CASE tools. Although these tools differ in the
particular methods, activities, and phases of the software development
cycle to which they are applied, constructors of these tools often face
similar implementation issues. Decisions about host computing platform,
implementation language, conformance with standards and reference
models, choice of repository, integration and interoperability
mechanisms, and user interface style have to be made. The different
strategies adopted by tool constructors when solving these tool
development problems is the theme of this symposium.
The symposium will be based around the participants' experience reports
of constructing their software engineering tools. The purpose of the
symposium is to bring together an international audience of researchers
and practitioners with similar interests and experience, to exchange
ideas, and to learn about different technologies and techniques for
software engineering tool development.
The symposium will focus principally on practical software engineering
issues encountered by tool developers. The symposium complements the
themes and aims of the co-located ICSE conference, and it will be of
interest to many practicing software engineers. The inaugural CoSET
symposium was held at ICSE'99 in Los Angeles, May 1999. CoSET'2000 will
continue the investigation of themes and concerns explored in CoSET'99,
including:
* specification and generation techniques;
* interchange formats and tool API's;
* forward and re-/reverse- engineering tools;
* tool evaluation, usability issues, and cognitive support;
* tools for tool builders;
* languages, frameworks, and component-based development.
We are requesting two categories of symposium submission:
* short papers, of typically 2000-4000 words;
* full papers, of 5000-6000 words plus figures/tables.
Papers in both categories of submission will be fully refereed by the
programme committee. The accepted short and full papers will be
published in the Symposium Proceedings. We request that authors format
their submissions according to the instructions that can be found on the
CoSET'2000 web page.
Submissions should be sent to the Symposium Chair as hard copy, or
electronically as PDF, postscript, or RTF files. The symposium
organisers will select the most promising full papers for submission to
IEEE Software for possible publication after a further process of peer
review.
Important dates are:
Submission of papers 1 February 2000
Notification of accept/reject 15 March 2000
Camera ready copy due 17 April 2000
Symposium 5 June 2000
For more information contact:
Dr Jonathan Gray (CoSET'2000 Chair),
jSchool of I.T. & Computer Science
University of Wollongong
NSW 2522, AUSTRALIA
Tel: +612 4221 3606, Fax: +612 4221 4170
E-mail: coset2000@cs.uow.edu.au
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The 14th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering - SBES'2000
Joao Pessoa - Paraiba - Brazil
Hotel Tambau
4-6 October, 2000
http://www.gi.cefetpb.br/sbes2000
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (Simposio Brasileiro de
Engenharia de Software - SBES, in Portuguese) is an event which
integrates the academic, industrial and commercial communities.
SBES is the official event of the Brazilian Computer Society (Sociedade
Brasileira de Computacao - SBC) in this field and includes presentation
of technical papers, invited speakers and tutorials. Previous editions
of the SBES were highlighted by the presentation of high quality
technical papers and the participation of important international
researchers in Software Engineering.
*** ACTIVITIES
The symposium program includes the presentation of technical papers,
invited talks, courses and demonstration of software tools. A
preliminary list of satellite events (with their general chair) is shown
below:
- 6th Workshop of Thesis on Software Engineering (WTES) Jose Carlos
Maldonado, ICMSC-USP-SC/BR
- 7th Workshop on Software Quality (WQS) Fernanda Campos, UFJF/BR
- 3rd Workshop on Formal Methods Roberto Bigonha, UFMG/BR
- Tools Session Antonio Prado, UFSCar/BR
- Tutorials Damires Fernandes, CEFET-PB/BR
The Call for Papers for each satellite event will be published
independently by the relevant organization committee.
*** TOPICS OF INTEREST
- Industrial applications of Software Engineering
- Social aspects of Software Engineering
- Component-based Software Engineering
- Requirements Engineering
- Theoretical Foundations of Software Engineering: Formal specification,
refinement, software validation and verification
- Methods, Techniques, Languages and Tools for Software Engineering
- Software Maintenance
- Software Process Modeling and Enaction
- Software Engineering for the World Wide Web
- Software Quality
- Software Reengineering
- Software Reuse
- Development of CSCW tools
*** INVITED SPEAKERS
Prof. Cliff Jones, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Prof. Shari Pfleeger, University of Maryland, USA
*** INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Although submissions in Portuguese and in Spanish will be considered for
evaluation, the recommended submission language is English; only papers
in English will entitle to the BEST PAPER AWARD (see below).
Papers submitted to SBES'2000 should not be under evaluation for
publication elsewhere. We strongly encourage the submission of papers by
e-mail.
Before submitting a paper (see IMPORTANT DATES below), authors must send
(in ASCII format) an e-mail message to sbes2000@di.ufpe.br containing
the following information about the paper: title, abstract, authors'
names and addresses, and the related theme (from the TOPICS OF INTEREST
listed above).
The paper itself should NOT have any identification of the authors. A
separate cover page should be added to the original paper providing
authors' identification.
The submitted papers will be evaluated based on originality, relevance,
technical quality, result validation, and presentation. Theoretical
papers should emphasize their contribution to the practice of Software
Engineering. Papers about practical experiments should describe the
method used and interpret their qualitative and quantitative results.
Each submission should stress its importance and contribution to
Software Engineering, presenting a comparison with related work. The
selected papers will be presented during the symposium and published at
the SBES proceedings.
BEST PAPER AWARD
This award will be given to the best paper as selected by the steering
committee. Only papers originally submitted in English will be
considered by the committee for the award.
PAPER FORMAT
Papers must be no longer than 16 A4 pages (single column), including all
the figures and references.
Font: Tms Roman 12 pt (or similar)
Margins:
Up: 3.5 cm
Down: 2 cm
Left and Right: 2.5 cm
Number of copies (for non-electronic submissions): original plus four
copies. All electronic submissions must be either in ghostview-readable
PostScript or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) formats.
*** STEERING COMMITTEE
Augusto Sampaio, LMF-DI-UFPE/BR (Program Comittee Chair)
Claudia Werner, COPPE-UFRJ/BR
Daltro Nunes, UFRGS/BR
Itana Gimenes, UEM-PR/BR
Marcos Borges, NCE-UFRJ/BR
*** ORGANISATION
Centro Federal de Educacao Tecnologica da Paraiba (CEFET-PB)
Gerencia de Informatica (http://www.gi.cefetpb.br)
Adriano Augusto de Souza (General Chair)
Email: sbes2000@gi.cefetpb.br
*** ADDRESS FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS AND ABSTRACTS
sbes2000@di.ufpe.br
or
Prof. Augusto Sampaio
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE
Departamento de Informatica
Caixa Postal 7851
50740-540 Cidade Universitaria
Recife - PE - Brazil
*** IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of abstracts: 24 April 2000
Paper submission: 2 May 2000
Authors notification: 5 July 2000
Camera ready copy: 31 July 2000
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