Hitting the Moving Target: Trials and Tribulations of Modeling Quality in Evolving Software Systems

Abstract

This panel, comprised of noted practitioners and researchers involved with measuring systems that undergo change, will present data from industry demonstrating the problems in modeling the quality of evolving systems. Lessons learned, from years of experience and experimentation, will be listed and discussed so that participants from the audience can gain insights and, hopefully, avoid some of the pitfalls inherent in measuring software that changes on a regular basis. Included in the discussion will be examples from industrial systems being constructed or maintained by Northern Telecom, Hewlett-Packard, StorageTek, JPL, and IBM.