Tuesday, 24.03.2009
Workshop SQM 2009 co-located with the 13th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern
Dr. Pizka's keynote gives an overview of the state of the art in software quality measurement and provides experiences from the consulting practice. Software cost, both for development and operation, is excessive. Quality and productivity vary enormously. Dr. Pizka shows that the "magic triangle" of time, budget and quality is untrue: avoiding quality defects reduces both development and operational cost. For example, the optimization of unnecessarily nested algorithms, as exist in many software systems, can lower hardware cost by 30%. The key to higher quality and higher economic efficiency in software is to understand, to measure and to take into account the economic consequences of software quality.
Speaker
Dr. Markus Pizka is a founder and managing partner of itestra GmbH.
