Dear BSPIN member,
You are cordially invited to attend BSPIN knowledge sharing session on

‘New Developments at the SEI’

BY

Dr. Paul Nielsen (Director & CEO, SEI)

The Software Engineering Institute continues to work with the global software community to address problems, discover new trends and increase our community’s professionalism.  

In this session, an update will be provided to the attendees on the most recent accomplishments and plans across the programs at SEI—covering work in process, architecture, SOA, ultra large systems, cyber security, risk and program management. 

AND

‘Application Analytics: Automated Analysis of

Cost and Risk Drivers in Large Applications’

BY

Dr. Bill Curtis (SVP & Chief Scientist, CAST)

Many of the worst operational problems in large IT applications are caused by non-functional defects, that is, violations of good architectural or coding practice that make applications vulnerable to outages, hackers, degraded performance, and maintainability problems.  These problems are difficult to detect with standard testing which tends to focus on functional requirements. 

In the last half decade significant gains have been made in automating the analysis of non-functional quality attributes as described in ISO 9126/25000.  This talk will describe the challenges in measuring these quality attributes, why code and application quality are different, and the practical uses to which these measures are being applied.  It will report some preliminary results from a soon-to-be-released global benchmark and some data that demonstrate how these measures can be used to reduce the cost and risk of applications.  We will conclude with the mission of the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) in advancing the automation of source code measurement.