Finnish Software Measurement Association www.fisma.fi Newsletter Summer/2014, page 1 Newsletter Summer / 2014 Events Upcoming trainings Nuclear SPICE Certified Functional Safety Manager Testing and ISO/IEC 29119 standard Work group meetings FiSMA SPIN, late August Scope Manager Forum, 4 Septem- ber Research Forum, 10 September Standards & Models, in October Testing & Quality, in October Details of the events could be checked in the web when final dates have been confirmed. Contact FiSMA Word Cloud: To commemorate our first newsletter, the editorial team generated a word cloud based on all of our older RSS stream feeds. (Dates and Company names removed) Interested in software processes, international standards or joining FiSMA? Easiest way to contact us is [email protected]+358 40 562 3544 FiSMA Ry Innopolis 2, Tekniikantie 14, 02150 Espoo Finland For better management
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Finnish Software Measurement Association www.fisma.fi Newsletter Summer/2014, page 1
Newsletter Summer / 2014
Events
Upcoming trainings
Nuclear SPICE
Certified Functional Safety Manager
Testing and ISO/IEC 29119 standard
Work group meetings
FiSMA SPIN, late August
Scope Manager Forum, 4 Septem-
ber
Research Forum, 10 September
Standards & Models, in October
Testing & Quality, in October
Details of the events could be checked
in the web when final dates have been
confirmed.
Contact
FiSMA Word Cloud: To commemorate our first newsletter, the editorial team generated a word cloud based on all of our older RSS stream feeds. (Dates and Company names removed)
Interested in software processes, international standards or joining FiSMA? Easiest way to contact us is
Finnish Software Measurement Association www.fisma.fi Newsletter Summer/2014, page 2
Newsletter Summer / 2014
ISO/IEC 29110 for Games
Lappeenranta University of Technology has been research-ing games from the viewpoint of software engineering in a multi-year spanning project which has had 11 company partners from the industry. As a part of the project, work has began on adapt-ing the software process model principles of the ISO/IEC 29110 Very Small Enterprise Life Cycle model to the game companies.
The resulting deployment package ”High Iteration Software Pro-cess Model” aims to combine the late change requests, chal-lenges of the creative aspects and other peculiarities of the game development world with the process thinking of software engineering. The work is currently in draft, and will be publicly available later this year.
During the development, most up-to-date information can be asked via email from Jussi Kasurinen (D.Sc.) at address [email protected]. Dr. Kasurinen is the manager of the re-search projects involved, and the main author of the deployment pack itself.
Research article: Desired Quality in Cloud Application
Development
Leah Riungu-Kalliosaari, Ossi Taipale and Kari Smolander have released an article on cloud applications and quality. This research publication is a part of ongoing STX project, which is partially funded by FiSMA. More infor-mation on this article, and other STX publications can be found from the address http://www2.it.lut.fi/project/STX/ or by contacting the project manager Ossi Taipale (D.Sc.) via email at [email protected]
Abstract from the paper: ” This qualitative case study describes how software development organizations reach for their own context-dependent quality in cloud application development. The study collected the data from se-lected organizations through interviews and applied the grounded theory method in the analysis. The study con-cludes that the desired quality varies among the organizations. However, usability was found to be an important quality characteristic n all the organizations. The organizations involved a set of three similar activities to attain the desired quality characteristics. These activities are summarized as (1) Selecting a suitable life-cycle model, during which (2) the customer is engaged and (3) the most suitable tools are used. The organizations incorpo-rated these activities so as to establish supportive working practices for acquiring the desired quality.
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Greetings from the XP-conference in Rome
The fifteenth international conference on agile software development (XP 2014) was arranged between 26th and 30th of May in the sunny city of Rome, Italy. The local venue was more than excellent for the purposes for the conference, and overall the general mood during the week was relaxed yet functional. The approach to the discussions over the new trends of agile development was fit for the subject; flash speeches intersecting the open space sessions and presentations. In addition to this, conference also had managed to squeeze several workshops and tutorials into the program, so that the visitors got more than just a theoretical sampling of the new ideas.
The agile development methods are refined and matured, this cannot be disputed. In fact, looking into the confer-ence in retrospective says much about the content, we are beyond the basic things and going into the advanced and specialized domains. Several presentations discussed and focused on different techniques, models and games which are meant to ease the application of agile principles, and in general, the focus seem to have shifted towards managing agile processes and scaling agility towards larger projects, away from the traditional software development. This was also mentioned in the most poignant keynote of the conference, given by Robert C. Mar-tin, who saw that the ’agile world is falling into the pit of certification’. According to him, the best hope to avoid this unwanted development is to go back to the basic values and principles of Extreme Programming, and start again from there.
As per usual, there was a strong Finnish presence in the conference, and this may not be complete coincidence, since the new venue for XP conference will be at Aalto University in Helsinki. Aalto will be hosting the conference on 25th to 29th of May in 2015; more information, call for papers and other interesting facts are available at http://www.xp2015.org/
Person reporting from the conference was Tuomas Mäkilä, who is currently working on the AgiES research pro-ject, focusing on the application of agile methods in the development of embedded systems. (See http://trc.utu.fi/embedded/research/agies/ for details)
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Nuclear SPICE
FiSMA has been an active partner in Finnish national nuclear safety research program SAFIR 2014 for sever-al years. Main responsibility has been to develop process assessment approaches for safety-critical systems and software in nuclear power domain. Now this work is nearly finished and the result is Nuclear SPICE mod-el. It is an integrated set of SPICE (ISO/IEC 15504 and 330xx standard), selected nuclear domain safety standards and selected nuclear regulatory guides. Nuclear SPICE model has been validated in several pilot assessments with system suppliers for Finnish nuclear industry. Nuclear SPICE assessments can be applied to supplier qualification, project qualification, and product development qualification with strict safety-criticality. FiSMA Association, Spinet Oy and Teollisuuden Voima Oy (a Finnish nuclear power company) will organize a 4-day Nuclear SPICE training during week 38 in Helsinki, Finland. Training days are 16 - 19.9.2014. Training will lead to Provisional Nuclear SPICE Assessor certificate, to act as a team member in internal or independ-ent assessments. For more information, please contact Risto Nevalainen, Senior Advisor in FiSMA, [email protected].
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ISO/IEC 29119 Courses
During this Spring, the members of FiSMA have been returning back to school, since FiSMA has arranged a series of their well-received training courses on the international standards and their application. This time the selected standard was ISO/IEC 29119 Software Testing standard, which was dissected and disseminat-ed during the two day courses, first held in February and due to large demand, repeated during the first week of June.
Overall, the course discussed the first four parts of the standards in detail, and additionally discussed the overall state of Finnish software testing and quality assurance in the industry, while also introducing the relevant related standards and assessment mod-els. As usual, feedback on the course was that both implementa-tions were liked and well-received.
For more information, and access to the course material can be requested from the FiSMA offices, see front page for details.
