------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- CHOOSE Forum 2006 on "Assessing Software Quality in Products and Processes" and CHOOSE General Assembly

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CALL OF PARTICIPATION

Conference of the Swiss Group for Object-Oriented Systems and Environments (CHOOSE)

Monday December 18, 2006 — Full day Allegro Grand Casino Kursaal Bern Bern

On-line registration and a preliminary program for this event are now available on the CHOOSE web site: http://www.choose.s-i.ch/events.html

Abstract -------------------------------------- Software quality is a major challenge for the kinds of software systems that are developed these days. Modern software systems are increasingly large, complex, heterogeneous and open. Both product and process quality attributes have a major impact on development and release cycles.

This CHOOSE Forum offers a series of presentations from experts that come from academia and industry and share their insights into software quality assessment. Newest technologies together with lessons learned cover aspects in products and processes. This forum addresses questions such as:

.) What are effective means for quality assessment? .) What is the state-of-the-art and the state-of-the-practice in quality engineering? .) What is the impact of software architecture on quality attributes? .) How can Reengineering contribute to quality assessment?

The day will conclude with a discussion session in which paths should be sketched where to go from here for better quality engineering.

The day also includes the CHOOSE General Assembly, including reports from the President and the Treasurer, and elections for the CHOOSE Executive Board.

Preliminary Schedule --------------------------------------

Time Session 08.30 – 09.00 Registration and Coffee 09.00 – 09.15 Welcome and Opening Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Berne, Switzerland (CHOOSE President) Harald Gall, University of Zurich, Switzerland (CHOOSE Forum Organizer) 09.15 – 10.00 David Notkin, University of Washington, Seattle, USA Software Architecture and Quality 10.00 – 10.30 Coffee Break 10.30 – 12.00 Serge Demeyer, University of Antwerp, Belgium Reengineering for Quality Jana Koehler, IBM Research Lab Zurich, Switzerland Anti-Patterns and typical failures in Business Process Modeling Hans Sassenburg, Software Improvement Group AG, Switzerland If Software Quality Is So Important, Why Is It So Often Neglected? 12.00 – 13.30 Buffet Lunch and CHOOSE General Assembly 13.30 – 15.00 Jacky Estublier, Grenoble University, France Are Software Processes really improving Software quality? Sander Tichelaar, Credit Suisse, Switzerland Quality Lessons from Lean Manufacturing Michele Lanza, University of Lugano, Switzerland and Radu Marinescu, TU Timisoara, Romania Object Oriented Metrics in Practice 15.00 – 15.30 Coffee Break 15.30 – 16.00 Panel 17.00 – 17.15 Closing

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Agenda for the CHOOSE General Assembly -------------------------------------- Please note that the General Assembly will be held during the CHOOSE Forum. All CHOOSE members are kindly invited to participate. 1. President's report. Activities since the last General Assembly. 2. Treasurer's report for 2005. 3. Miscellaneous.