Objective
The interest of SVIMSERVICE is to improve the quality of application software delivered and make the maintenance process more effective with respect to users expectation. This PIE will permit to introduce and formalise a new testing strategy aiming to reduce the overall development costs and increase user satisfaction. Moreover, the experiment results will contribute to improve the Quality System currently adopted by the company.
The specific, measurable objectives for the experiment are following: to create skills and culture of software validation, to experiment techniques and methods for software testing, to introduce testing procedures, standards and automated testing tools.
THE EXPERIMENT
The experiment will be conducted within an improvement scheme taking into account current status of people's technical skills, practices currently used to develop and manage software products, business goals and company commitment on implementing quality and productivity improvement programme.
This improvement process will be tailored to the specific baseline project; in particular, the experiment will concentrate on the formalisation and automation of the aspects that mostly affect the testing phase following code implementation and during the evolutionary maintenance phase (regression test).
The experiment will be conducted on a baseline project which foresees the implementation, the release and the maintenance of a software product for the Public Administration.
SVIMSERVICE employs 168 peoples, 8 of them are involved in the baseline project.
EXPECTED IMPACT AND EXPERIENCE
This experiment aims at significantly reducing this gap by transforming testing activities into a defined and repeatable standard process. At the end of the experimental phase we expect a general improvement in the testing process as well as a significant reduction of the cost/effort values and a more marketable of our software products and to compete on bigger market spaces. Finally, the specific training of personnel will permit the creation of a group which will specialise in testing activities (Validation group).
The introduction of testing procedures in the company Quality System will enable to apply the experimented method to all the other development projects, by contributing so to the improvement of our software development process.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- social sciences sociology industrial relations automation
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software development
- social sciences economics and business economics production economics productivity
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software applications
- social sciences political sciences public administration
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70123 Bari
Italy
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