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Plenary Lecture

Software Quality & Testing Metrics

Assistant Professor Ljubomir Lazic
State University of Novi Pazar
Serbia
E-mail: llazic@np.ac.rs

Abstract: Software Quality Assurance (SQA) without measures is like a jet with no fuel. Development of high quality software is very complicated and unreliable task, but the management of software development and testing process (SDP-STP) is much harder without appropriate software quality metrics and measurement establishment that assure process testing quantitative management in order to increase efficiency of software bugs detection and removal. Process improvement enables the same amount of software to be built in less time with less effort and fewer defects. Progress control tracks defects found during development in order to avoid premature delivery and to ensure the reliability goals are achieved. In-progress control and reporting of development progress gives continuous visibility to both developers and purchasers. Time to market pressure in many high technology domains’ means that developers and purchasers alike require at all times to be confident the software delivery date, the expected cost and reliability will be achieved as planned. Using the core measurement data provides visibility and control each month throughout development. The data provides a full history when the project completes. This history is invaluable to understand how the project performed and to add to a growing database of development performance. We established SQA metrics repository for: Benchmarking and Process Improvement, Estimating and Risk Assessment and Progress Control and Reporting. The SQA function validates the major management areas by auditing the core measures, their use by the management processes and making sure the processes are followed. SQA is only practical in the three key management processes described here by using measures. Hence it is vital these management processes operate using quantified data. The core measurement data enables all the SQA objectives to be met in these processes. Each process directly impacts the final software product quality.

Brief Biography of the Speaker: Ljubomir Lazic graduated from the University Electrical Engineering School, Serbia in 1979. In the 1980s he worked as Embedded Software and Hardware Test Engineer, Test Manager and Senior Researcher at Military Technical Testing Center (MTTC). He was a member of MTTC‘s Scientific Council, Belgrade, Former Yugoslavia and ICT Military Expert at Yugoslav Army Headquarters. Also in the 1990s, he has been working for a local telecommunications SIEMENS Company in Belgrade as Chief Engineer in Sales & Marketing Division, Installation & Commissioning Manager and Maintenance Manager. He continued to serve industry in a variety of roles, including consulting, executive education, and expert testimony. He is docent in Computer Science at the State University of Novi Pazar, Serbia (2007- current), and docent in Software Engineering, University Union of Belgrade (2006-2010). His research interests are in Software Engineering, Software Project Management, Software Testing, Human Computer Interaction, and Component Based Engineering. Current research interests, doing as a Project leader, in two projects supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia under Grant No. TR-1318 (2008-2011) and TR-35026 (2011-2014) are: Optimal software project management, Software Metrics, Effort Estimation Modeling etc. He is author of about 90 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings, invited speaker (Keynote speaker at QA&TEST 2010, 9th International Conference on Software QA and Testing on Embedded Systems, 27-28-29 October - Bilbao, Spain, 2010 and PLENARY SPEAKER at WSEAS, the 6th EUROPEAN COMPUTING CONFERENCE (ECC '12) Prague, Czech Republic, September 24-26, 2012).

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