The Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) is an IT industry group comprising IT executives from the
Global 2000,
systems integrator
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s,
outsourced service providers, and software technology vendors committed to making improvements in the quality of IT
application software
Application may refer to:
Mathematics and computing
* Application software, computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks
** Application layer, an abstraction layer that specifies protocols and interface methods used in a ...
.
Overview
Jointly organized by the
Software Engineering Institute
The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is an American research and development center headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Its activities cover cybersecurity, software assurance, software engineering and acquisition, and component capabi ...
(SEI) at
Carnegie Mellon University
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and the
Object Management Group (OMG), CISQ is designed to be a neutral forum in which customers and suppliers of IT application software can develop an industry-wide agenda of actions for defining, measuring, and improving IT
software quality
In the context of software engineering, software quality refers to two related but distinct notions:
* Software functional quality reflects how well it complies with or conforms to a given design, based on functional requirements or specificatio ...
.
History
CISQ was launched in August 2009 by 24 founders including SEI and OMG.
The founders of CISQ are
Paul D. Nielsen, Director and CEO of SEI and
Richard Mark Soley, Chairman and CEO of OMG.
Bill Curtis, the co-author of the
CMM framework is CISQ's first Director.
Software measurement and productivity expert
Capers Jones is a CISQ Distinguished Advisor.
In September 2012, CISQ published its standard measures for evaluating and benchmarking the
reliability,
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,
performance efficiency, and
maintainability of IT software.
In January 2013, OMG adopted
Automated Function Point specifications.
In May 2013 CISQ reached 500 members.
In December 2013,
WIPRO
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become the fourth major sponsor to join the list of industry participants investing in the completion and adoption of CISQ standards in the IT industry.
See also
*
ISO/IEC 9126
References
External links
* {{official website, http://www.it-cisq.org
Software quality