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See You Next Year! Thank you for a great year.

  Topic:

Look at what was presented:

  • NAnt, Ant, configuration management, automatic testing, Tom Reedy
  • How to Move to a More Agile Mindset, Ken Auer
  • Pragmatic Tracer Bullet, Jared Richardson
  • Refactoring Your Wetware, Andy Hunt
  • XP Second Edition, compared with XP First Edition, Dr. Laurie Williams

Now think about your presention standing among these distinguished presenters. Send a note to the leadership council today!

Presenter: This could be YOU!
Location: Your company a host for RTP SPIN, standing for technical vitality, standing out in the community!

Contact the Leadership Council

Please RSVP to Rob Rose, at rose6333@bellsouth.net, if you plan to attend. There is no cost to join SPIN or to attend a meeting. See meeting details for location and directions.

Upcoming Local Events:

 

 

Triangle Extreme Programmer's User Group

Meets the the evening of the last Monday of the month.

Participate in a Survey?

Medha Umarji is a Doctorial candiate at the University of Maryland. He is doing a survey to find out what you think of the software measurement activities at your company. He wants managers, even if you do not have a formal process at your company.

Software Measurements Survey

Participate in Research?

 At her Feburary talk, Laurie Williams mentioned two efforts to investigate and quantify aspects of software development process at NC State. Maybe your project and these research activities are the perfect match for each other?

  • DEV-COP [Eclipse plug-in that can be used to record validation and verification (V&V certificates) in the code itself. These certificates can be used for empirical studies of V&V methods (such as pair programming and inspections) and ultimately for defect density estimation.] Contact Mark Sherriff, <mark.sherriff@ncsu.edu>.
  • PORT [Prioritization of Requirements for Test; process for prioritizing system test cases based upon requirements priority, requirements volatility, fault proneness, and complexity] Contact Hema Srikanth <hema1900@yahoo.com> .

Call for Papers:

Software Quality Requirements:
How to balance competing priorities

Submission Deadline: Sep-2007 – Publication: Mar/Apr 2008

A special issue of IEEE Sofware adressing:

  • How do you define quality in your software products?
  • How do you express the level of quality that stakeholders might desire?
  • How do you document those desires?
  • How much time do you spend specifying requirements for quality?
  • During development, how do you balance the competing demands of schedule, cost, scope, and quality?

See detalis: Call For Papers For a Special Issue of IEEE Software on Quality Requirements

 

 

 


 

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