Alain Abran en Madrid

El Profesor Dr. Alain Abran, École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS) – Université du Québec (Canada), una de las más importantes personalidades de las métricas del software, impartirá una conferencia sobre "SOFTWARE MEASUREMENTS IS MATURING TO INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS" en la E.U Informática de Vallecas.

FECHA y HORA: Martes 7 de junio, 10:00 horas
LUGAR: E.U. Informática. Edificio Prisma. Bloque XV, planta 1ª. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid-Campus Sur. Cra Valencia Km. 7, 28031 Madrid.

RESUMEN DE LA CONFERENCIA

‘Software Metrics’ has long been the dominant view about measurement in the software community. It has led to hundreds of candidates measures for all kinds of software characteristics.
But out of that diversity, which ones to choose and why?

This presentation will:

- present key highlights of the ‘metrics’ approach to software measurement,
- introduce classic measurement concepts from the metrology field and
- discuss how international standards are emerging in software measurement.

BIOGRAFIA DEL PROFESOR ABRAN

Dr. Alain Abran is a Professor and the Director of the Software Engineering Research Laboratory at the École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS) – Université du Québec (Canada). **

Dr. Abran is the co-executive editor of the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge project. He has also been actively involved in software engineering standardization as the international secretary for ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7 - Software and System Engineering in 2001-2003; he is also Co-chair of the Common Software Measurement International Consortium (COSMIC).

Dr. Abran has more than 20 years of industry experience in information systems development and software engineering. Dr. Abran holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1994) from École Polytechnique de Montréal (Canada) and master degrees in Management Sciences (1974) and Electrical Engineering (1975) from University of Ottawa.

His research interests include software productivity and estimation models, software engineering foundations, software quality, software functional size measurement, software risk management and software maintenance management.