Groups, programs, and organizations interested in Software Quality.
Composable Software Systems - The Composable Software Systems project at Carnegie Mellon University focuses on three research areas: software architecture, formal methods, and tractable software analysis. The project develops new models, theories, methods, languages, and tools for classifying, specifying, analyzing, and designing software systems beyond the component level. This support could lead to substantial reduction in maintenance costs, improvement in software reuse, and increase in quality of software.
NASA's Software Assurance Technology Center (SATC) - The Software Assurance Technology Center (SATC) was established in 1992 as part of the Systems Reliability and Safety Office at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The SATC was founded with the intent to become a center of excellence in software assurance, dedicated to making measurable improvement in both the quality and reliability of software developed for NASA at GSFC. SATC is self-supported with internal funding coming from research and application of current software engineering techniques and tools. Research funding primarily originates at NASA headquarters and is administered by it's Software IV&V Facility in Fairmont, WV. Other support comes directly from development projects for direct collaboration and technical support.
National Institute of Standards and Technology Software Quality Group - The Software Quality Group develops tools, methods, and related models for the tracing of software processes to
variables and related resource utilizations, thus helping industry with improving the quality of software development and maintenance. Semantic correctness, formal methods techniques, performance assessment, and benchmarking are also
candidate tasks for this group.
Society for Software Quality - The Society for Software Quality (SSQ) promotes increased knowledge and interest in the technology associated with the development and maintenance of quality software. Its charter is to advance the arts, sciences, and technologies of quality software and to nurture and promote professionalism in those who engage in these pursuits. Information on Software Quality, Testing and Safety can be found at this site.
Software Quality Institute (SQI); the University of Texas at Austin - The Software Quality Institute (SQI) is a multidisciplinary partnership between The University of Texas at Austin and the software and information systems organizations in Texas. Its mission is to inform and educate software producers and software users at the local, state and national levels about issues vital to the production and application of high-quality software. Extensive training offered to software professionals includes 48-week Software Project Management Certificate Program. About 30 seminars a year are offered on a variety of topics, including quality issues, metrics, planning, testing, requirements gathering. Object-oriented topics are also offered, such as Unified Modeling Language, OO Design and Development, Java, etc.
University of Maryland -- Experimental Software Engineering Group (ESEG) - The Experimental Software Engineering Group (ESEG) of the University of Maryland views the study of software engineering as a laboratory science. Specific research projects are centered around formalizing various aspects of (a) the Quality Improvement Paradigm (QIP), (b) the Experience Factory (EF), and (c) the Goal/Question/Metric approach (GQM). The QIP is aimed at building descriptive models of software processes, products, and other forms of experience, experimenting with and analyzing these models, in order to build
improvement-oriented, packaged, prescriptive models. The EF is an organizational approach for packaging reusable software experiences and supplying them to projects and building core competencies in software.
University of Tennessee Software Quality Research Laboratory - The University of Tennessee Software Quality Research Laboratory does applied research and development in software engineering. Industrial sponsors support software quality research, demonstration, and technology transfer activities.
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