CAST to Present at World Congress for Software Quality

Measuring the Internal Quality of a Business Application

CAST, the worldwide leader in Automated Application Intelligence (http://www.castsoftware.com/Product/Application_Intelligence_Platform.aspx), will be presenting a tutorial titled Measuring the Technical Quality of Software at the Systems Level, at the 4th World Congress on Software Quality in Bethesda, MD at 1 pm on September 15, 2008.

The World Congress for Software Quality (http://www.asq.org/conferences/wcsq/index.html), a major international gathering of software quality professionals begun in 1995, has been a partnership of the Software Division of the American Society for Quality, the Software Group of the European Organization for Quality, and the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers.

Dr. Bill Curtis (http://www.asq.org/conferences/wcsq/descriptions/tut12.html), Chief Scientist for CAST, will present a tutorial titled: Measuring the Technical Quality of Software at the Systems Level which describes six trends that are accelerating the importance of software quality in business applications. He will argue that based on these trends, defining quality as the removal of defects is no longer sufficient. Different sources of business value will be related to different aspects of software quality such as robustness, maintainability, security, and other such measures. Different methods for measuring software quality, especially at the systems level, will be presented along with guidelines for their interpretation.

Dr. Curtis co-authored the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), the People Capability Maturity Model, and the Business Process Maturity Model. Until its acquisition by Borland he was Co-founder and Chief Scientist of TeraQuest, the global leader in CMM-based services. He is a former Director of the Software Process Program in the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He previously worked for MCC, GE, ITT, and the University of Washington. He has published four books, over 150 articles, and is an IEEE Fellow.

-- World Congress for Software Quality

-- Hyatt Regency Bethesda - Bethesda, MD

-- Sept 15, 2008 - 1 pm

-- Click here (https://secure.asq.org/conferences/wcsq-2008/registration.html) to register for the conference

-- Click here (http://www.asq.org/conferences/wcsq/index.html) for more information

About CAST

CAST is the world leader and pioneer in Application Intelligence software, providing the metrics and information IT executives must have to measure, monitor and improve the quality of business applications and the performance of development teams around the globe. Founded in 1990, CAST has helped more than 650 organizations worldwide speed delivery to the business, mitigate risks in production, improve the customer experience, and reduce the total cost of application ownership. CAST is listed on NYSE-Euronext (Euronext: CAS) and serves Global 2000 organizations worldwide with a network of offices in the US and Europe.

For more information visit www.castsoftware.com.