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Software
Inspections: A Practical Quality-Driven Approach
The Fraunhofer Center Maryland (FC-MD) invites you to attend this course, which will help you get started applying scenario-based software inspection on your project, or help breathe new life into an existing inspection program.
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Public Offerings:
Upon request
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Location:
Fraunhofer Center Maryland
5825 University Research Court Suite 1300 |
Objective:
Inspections
have proven time and again to be one of the most effective practices available
for ensuring quality software and on-time deliveries. Studies across many
industrial and governmental organizations have demonstrated their benefits,
including reduced cost, improved quality, and improved team communication. These
studies have shown that the rework effort saved not only pays for the effort
spent on inspections, but also provides additional cost savings on the project.
Since all projects are different, an emphasis in this course
is on a scenario-based approach which helps to tailor the inspection processes to
a team’s particular needs. FC-MD's "TAQtIC" approach (pronounced tactic: Taxonomy Approach for
Quality-driven Inspections) helps inspections fit into even early phases of
software development (especially requirements and design), where quality
criteria are often nebulous but the cost savings from avoiding defects is
highest.
This training provides you with the information
and materials necessary to get started applying scenario-based inspection
on your project. A hands-on workshop is included that helps develop skills
and clear guidance for applying TAQtIC.
Organizers:
Instructor: Dr. Forrest Shull is a senior
scientist at FC-MD, where he is project manager and member of technical staff
for projects with clients that have included Fujitsu, Motorola, NASA, and the
U.S. Department of Defense. He has led consulting and research work in the area
of software inspections and defect reduction, for clients such as the NASA
Office of Safety and Mission Assurance and large aerospace contractors. He has
provided training on the application of inspection techniques at international conferences and for both large and small
organizations.
Hosting
organization: FC-MD
is a not-for-profit affiliate of the University of Maryland’s Computer Science
Department in College Park. Founded in 1998, FC-MD helps organizations improve
their software business through process improvement initiatives. FC-MD works
closely with renowned national and international partners to apply empirical thinking
to real-world software contexts.
More
Information:
The course fee
includes training, lecture notebook, lunch and beverages. For registration or further information please send an
email to: training@fc-md.umd.edu
or call 240-487-2905.
This training is based on the successful tutorial Improving
Software Inspections which has been
delivered for many organizations in the US and Europe, at the International
Conference on Software Engineering, and at NASA’s Software Engineering
Workshop. It was developed by FC-MD in collaboration with the
Fraunhofer Institut für Experimentelles Software Engineering (IESE),
Kaiserslautern, Germany.