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Grid-QCM

Grid-QCM. Automation in Quality Assurance. Summary. The project Introduction to QA concepts The starting point of the study The Grid Quality Certification Model (Grid-QCM) The Grid-QCM dissemination timeline Some FAQs Grid-QCM adoption in a CMMi lev.3 organization Conclusions.

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Grid-QCM

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  1. Grid-QCM Automation in Quality Assurance

  2. Summary • The project • Introduction to QA concepts • The starting point of the study • The Grid Quality Certification Model (Grid-QCM) • The Grid-QCM dissemination timeline • Some FAQs • Grid-QCM adoption in a CMMi lev.3 organization • Conclusions

  3. The ETICS2 project

  4. ETICS2The ETICS second phase • Started in March 2008 • Duration: 2 years • Funded by the European Commission • Extended name: • “eInfrastructure for Testing Integration and Configuration of Software 2” • Purpose: • Automate the way a software is built, tested and certified. • It provides • Fully automatic build, test and certification tools • A repository for the artefacts • A Grid based solution  optimal performances and multiple platform and test options

  5. Introduction to QA concepts

  6. Grid-QCM focusProduct VS Process • Quality refers to several concepts like: • Quality of the Implementation process • Quality of the requirements management • Quality of the service • Quality of the software

  7. TerminologyProduct VS Process • According to ISO 9126 documentation we can define: • Measure: the number or category assigned to an attribute of an entity by making a measurement (sometimes used as synonymous of metric) • Metric: The defined method to measure an attribute and the scale • Measurement: The use of a metric to assign a value (which may be a number or category) from a scale to an attribute of an entity)

  8. The starting point

  9. State of the ArtWe have tons of stuff in the SoA! • State of the art provides • Hundreds of metrics • Approaches to define user’s own metrics • Many standards to asses the quality of processes and products • So, what’s the matter?!?

  10. The matterEffort and resources • QA means initial investments and • Managing QA means devote resources to it • Many companies (e.g. SMEs) cannot afford the initial effort and do not recognise the promised increase of value. • Only ~70 companies in the world are CMMi lev.5 certified • 50 of them are in India • source: Gartner • Just 25% of the companies in the world are CMMi lev.2 or above • source: Kulik, Weber: “Software Metrics Best Practices – 2001”and “Software Metrics State of the Art – 2000”

  11. Current standards issuesWhy studying for one more QA certification model • Current quality assurance standards are useful but • They need lot of time to be applied. • People need training • Certification needs inspections to be achieved • What for the short-lived consortia? • They provide only theoretical guidelines which need to be adapted and implemented. What for homogeneity and comparability of results? • It’s hard to systematically verify goodness of results: managing tools needed

  12. The Grid Quality Certification Model

  13. Grid-Quality Certification ModelOur proposal to help developers • Grid-QCM is • fully automatable in measuring and verifying activities to reduce investments and management effort • not subjective, to certify the object not the process nor the organization • product oriented, not process oriented • easily adoptable within short-lived Projects

  14. Grid-Quality Certification Modelpreliminary remarks • Grid-QCM has been developed according to • The feedback received from expert people and potential users • ISO standards guidelines: • Grid-QCM has been described according to ISO 25000, 14598 • Grid-QCM has been structured according to ISO 25041 • Quality attributes has been named according to ISO 9126

  15. Allows Test Allows automation Defines metrics Runs measures Grid-Quality Certification ModelThe ETICS vision Grid-QCM ETICS Software ETICS grid infrastructure

  16. The structureEvaluation modules • Grid-QCM is structured in Evaluation Modules (EM). • The set of evaluation techniques are grouped in families. Every family is an Evaluation Module • 5 Evaluation Modules: • Static analysis • Coding style • Structural testing • Functional testing • Standards compliance

  17. Evaluation Modules 1/2 • Static analysis • Quality characteristics: • Reliability – maturity • Maintainability – analysability • Maintainability – changeability • Maintainability – testability • Static analysis of classes. Statistics on measures are used as predictor of quality characteristics. • Coding style • Quality characteristics: • Maintainability – analysability • Static analysis of the source code.

  18. Evaluation Modules 2/2 • Structural testing • Quality characteristics: • Functionality – accuracy • Reliability – maturity • Structural testing to classes identified more likely to have many errors. • Functional testing • Quality characteristics: • Functionality – accuracy • Functionality – interoperability • Reliability – maturity • Portability – adaptability • Portability - installability • Platform compliance and to functional abilities of the software • Standards compliance • Quality characteristics: • Functionality – standards compliance

  19. Grid-QCM: Final Score • Final score will consist in: • A table summarizing the results with several possible views • A list of passed and failed tests • All the important information as: • Software product • Platform • Quality characteristics • Standard compliance • Identification of evaluation report • Identification of certification body (organization, contact information) • Certification data (dates, certification number) • Electronic signature of certification record

  20. The Grid-QCM dissemination timeline

  21. Grid-QCM worldwideSince 2007 EGEE ’07 1-5 Oct Budapest (Hun) ESA 3rd GRID & e-Collaboration Workshop 16-17 Jan 2008 Frascati (IT) ECHOGRID/EUChinagrid Conference 24-25 April Beijing (CHINA) OGF 21 15-19 Oct Seattle (USA) OGF 23 2-6 June Barcelona (SPA) DEC JAN ‘08 MAY JUNE OCT FEB ‘07 Now EELA 3° Conference 3-5 Dec 2007 Catania (IT) ETICS review 15 Feb Geneva (CH) OGF 20/EGEE UF 7-11 May Manchester (UK) Belief Conference 25-28 June Rio de Janeiro (BRA) QUALIPSO Conference 16-17 Jan 2008 Rome (IT)

  22. Some FAQs

  23. Some Questions and AnswersYes, but… • What’s good about Grid-QCM for my project? • This model (and the capability of automation) reduces the effort in performing continuous build and test activities (e.g. coverage tests) on different SW releases. • What are the costs? • Using the ETICS tool people can have the model integrated in the build and test application free of charge • My organisation is certified ISO/CMMI can I use Grid-QCM? • The model is a standalone quality certification model. • However it can be easily integrated in yet ISO/CMMI certified organisations.

  24. Grid-QCM in a CMMi lev.3 organisation

  25. Grid-QCM in a CMMi lev.3 certified companyThe Engineering experience • Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A is certified as follows: • CMMi lev. 3 • For all production divisions • ISO 9001 • For all the ICT sector in which the organization is involved • Since 1994 ( ISO9001:2000 from December 2002) • NATO AQAP 2110/160 • Since December 1996 (from 1996 to 2005 there were different rules) • The whole Grid-QCM work is born from internal needs of • The research area • The production area

  26. Engineering QA toolsKeeping the certification • Engineering tools to reach and maintain the CMMi lev. 3 certification: • Spago4Q (www.spago4q.org) • measures processes, performances and bugs through the integration with other tools • Internally developed and available for free • Examples of calculated metrics: • Test Coverage • Anomalies distribution • Effort used to solve anomalies • Cost of not founded anomalies • Metrics about requirements • Metrics about risk management • …

  27. It is not enough…What ETICS and Grid-QCM can do for ENG • …Some quality aspects are not covered • Grid-QCM + the ETICS suite • Measures other quality aspects such as: • Quality of the code • Compliance with standards • Compliance with OS • … • Can be integrated with the Spago4Q suite • So, Engineering is managing the activities to make Grid-QCM + ETICS a tool to keep the CMMi lev.3 certification

  28. Conclusions

  29. ConclusionsAnd further steps • Grid-QCM is a certification model • Automatable • Implemented by default in the ETICS tool • Ready to interact with classical standards • Adopting Grid-QCM requires little human effort • During the ETICS 2 project • Grid-QCM is going to be validated on-the-field with at first two (Dec. ‘08) and then four projects (Dec. ’09) • Grid-QCM will be proposed for the ISO standardisation (2009)

  30. E-mail addresses • We wish Grid-QCM and ETICS to be as simple and effective as possible to use. • For this we need your feedback • adriano.rippa@eng.it

  31. Q&A Thank you! http://www.eticsproject.eu

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