We think of life as being measured in years not inches, but on the night of 15th December 1967 for Charlene Wood life, or death, would be a matter of inches. Charlene was looking forward to getting home after 8 hours on her feet at the local hair salon, a long time given Charlene was pregnant with her first child. As Charlene approached the Sliver Bridge over the Ohio River that cold Friday evening, the last thing on her mind was a design decision made 39 years ago, a decade before she was even born.... Read more →

CISQ is launching its State of the Nation survey on software quality. I sat down with Dave Norton, Executive Director of CISQ and lead author of the survey, to draw out his insights and rationale for launching the survey and its subsequent report. Continue reading... - Tracie Berardi, Program Manager, CISQ... Read more →

David Norton, Executive Director, CISQ Note: This blog first appeared on Dave's LinkedIn on May 16, 2019 in a longer, more wittier form The following comes with a warning! I am about to suggest something that many in the agile world will hate. Even as I type, I can already... Read more →

Tracie Berardi, Program Manager, CISQ On May 1 in Washington, DC, CISQ presented at Cyber Standards for Modern IT, an event co-hosted with the Homeland Security Dialogue Forum and Center for Public Policy Innovation. The purpose of the meeting was to educate members of Congress and their staff on standards... Read more →

Dr. Bill Curtis, Founding Executive Director of the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ), has joined the Standards Technical Panels (STPs) for the UL 2900 series of standards. UL 2900 is a set of software cybersecurity standards for network-connectable products.... Read more →

Tracie Berardi, Program Manager, CISQ SPICON is an annual conference organized by the Chennai chapter of Software Systems Process Improvement Network (SPIN). An international forum that promotes various high-maturity quality and management practices, processes, frameworks and models, SPICON attracts thought leaders in software and systems process improvement from around the..... Read more →

Dr. Bill Curtis, Executive Director, Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) The OMG Technical meeting this past week in Reston, Virginia (DC area) was very productive for CISQ. On Monday, March 18, the Automated Source Code Quality Measures specification that extends the CISQ Quality Characteristic Measures to embedded software was... Read more →

After requests from numerous commercial enterprises, the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) was formed in 2010 by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and the Object Management Group (OMG), an international IT standards organization. CISQ was chartered to create international standards for automating the measurement of size and structural quality from software source code. During early executive forums held in Washington DC, Frankfurt, and Bangalore, five measures were selected for initial specification, among which was a request to automate the counting of Function Points from source code based as closely as possible on counting guidelines from the International Function Points User Group (IFPUG)... Read more →

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework was first published in 2014 for operators of U.S. critical infrastructure and is now the de facto cybersecurity framework for a wide range of businesses and organizations across industries. Organizations link their cyber approaches to the Framework’s core functions of Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover... Read more →

This report was written by Herb Krasner, a member of CISQ’s Advisory Board. Herb spent many years at the University of Texas at Austin as Professor of Software Engineering, the Director of Outreach Services for the UT Center for Advanced Research in Software Engineering (ARiSE), and founder and CTO of... Read more →