[CLUE-Talk] Software quality

[Kevin Cullis]

B O'Fallon wrote:
> 
> John Kottal wrote:
> 
> > There were only two or three shops in the world that were considered Level 5 as
> > recent as 3 years ago (one in NASA dealing with shuttle flight software and one
> > dealing with electric power plant operation --- and maybe one other --- in India).
> >
> 
> If you can believe salon.com as a source (this was from one of the listed websites):
> 
> India has 22 of the 38 software companies around the world that have adopted his
> methodology and are certified to have met the Software Engineering Institute's
> highest -- "Level 5" -- standards for quality. (Four American companies, including
> Perot Systems and Citicorp, own Level 5 subsidiaries in India.) Last year, the Indian
> government and several Indian companies founded the Watts Humphrey Software Quality
> Institute in Chennai, in South India, where a contract software    development firm
> called Advanced Information Systems is churning out software with just 0.05 defects
> per 1,000 lines of code -- "better than the space shuttle's software," Pfaffenberger
> says -- and has, as a result, doubled its profits.
> 

Check out this site for who's certified:

http://www.sei.cmu.edu/sema/pub_ml.html

Kevin