LOCATION

Eetvartti-auditorium, Sokos Hotel Villa, Sumeliuksenkatu 16, 33100 Tampere

SPEAKERS

Stephen Kan, IBM/University of Minnesota, USA
Prof. Tibor Gyimothy, University of Szeged
Prof. Rudolf Ferenc, University of Szeged
Kirsi Korhonen, Nokia Siemens Networks

TITLES AND TOPICS

Steve Kan: "In-process metrics and quality assessment: and industry perspective" Along the way, potentail research topics for students who might be interested will be suggested. Also, a brief presentation / discusson on agile metrics will be given.

Kirsi Korhonen: "Quality metrics to support defect management in a large-scale multi-site organization" The presentation will introduce a quality improvement project which was done in a real, large scale and multi-site software development environment. The material will cover background, implementation and results of the improvement project.
 
Rudolf Ferenc: In the first part of my presentation ("Software product metrics") I will introduce the most popular software product metrics. I will show their definitions and explain their intuitive meaning, illustrated on small code snippets and/or UML class diagrams. I will also reason about the usefulness and applicability of these metrics in practice, in the daily work of software developers.
In the second part ("Software product metrics in practice") I will show how product metrics can be used meaningfully in practice. I will calculate metrical values of an open source software system and pinpoint the most problematic parts of the code based on the metrics.

Tibor Gyimothy: "The quality of the software quality models based on product metrics"
Product metrics are often used to predict various quality attributes of software products, such as maintainability,   changeability, and error-proneness. In the first part of my talk I will present some quality models based on object-oriented product design metrics. The software developers are usually skeptical about the usefulness of these models. On the basis of a survey, I will give an overview on the developers' view on the usability of the software product metrics.

PROGRAM

*October 5 2009*

Morning coffee/tea
09:15 Opening (Tarja Systä)
09:30 SW measurement basics - Dos and Don'ts (Steve Kan)
11:00 Break
11:30 Effort / outcome approach to In-process metrics (Steve Kan)
12:30 Lunch break
13:30 Process measurements and SPC for software metrics  (Steve Kan)
14:30 Coffee break
15:00 Linking metrics and indicators to business decision in software
quality management: the Quality Predictive Indicator (QPI) process
(Steve Kan)
Discussions, social activities

*October 6 2009*

Morning coffee/tea
09:15 Quality metrics to support defect management in a large-scale
multi-site organization (Kirsi Korhonen)
10:15 Break
10:30 Software product metrics (Rudolf Ferenc)
12:00 Lunch break
13:00 The quality of the software quality models based on product metrics (Tibor
Gyitmothy)
14:30 Coffee break
15:00 Software product metrics in practice (Rudolf Ferenc)