perjantai 29. elokuuta 2014

EuroSPI 2014 discussed about measurement and innovation

EuroSPI 2014 conference was held in Luxembourg during the last week of June. Conference included five workshops and two conference days. EuroSPI conference is a good mix of academic and industrial papers, all together appr 50 presentations. Conference keynotes were about software testing, enterprise architecture and SPICE experiences.

FiSMA contributed in two topics: functional safety and measurement. Our presentations were based on our new ideas in Nuclear SPICE and NorthernSCOPE. Wide range of other topics was discussed in other conference papers, including change management, assurance thinking, improvement strategy and SPI in very small entities.

EuroSPI conference is changing itself, extending partnerships mainly in Asia. The Euro(Asia)SPI 2015 Conference will take place from 30. September - 2. October 2015 in Ankara, Turkey and will be hosted by the Turkish Standards Institution. Call for papers is currently open.

More information: Risto Nevalainen, FiSMA Senior Advisor, risto.nevalainen (at) fisma.fi

keskiviikko 6. elokuuta 2014

ISO/IEC 29110 for Games

Lappeenranta University of Technology has been researching 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 adapting 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 Process Model” aims to combine the late change requests, challenges 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 jussi.kasurinen@lut.fi. Dr. Kasurinen is the manager of the research projects involved, and the main author of the deployment pack itself.