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7th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology

Program




Day 1 - 29th September


Time Day 1 - 29th September
08:00-9:00 Registration (reception desk)
09:00-10:30 Industrial Track Tutorial (room B032) (Part 1)
The CMMI Suite – an integrated approach to driving effective

and sustainable performance improvement in turbulent times

Jay Douglass, SEI
Thematick Tracks (in parallel)
1. Quality in ICT Verification and Validation (room I-105)
2. ICT Process Improvement and Assessment (room B232C)
3. Quality in ICT Requirements Engineering (room B120)
4. Quality in Web Engineering (room B226)
5. Quality in ICT Reengineering and Refactoring (room B116)
6. Quality in ICT Service Management (room B231)
10:30-11:00 Coffee-break and Posters Track (atrium)
11:00-12:30 Industrial Track Tutorial (room B032) (Part 2)
The CMMI Suite – an integrated approach to driving effective

and sustainable performance improvement in turbulent times

Jay Douglass, SEI
Thematick Tracks (in parallel)
(continuation of tracks 1 to 6)
12:30-14:00 Lunch (atrium)
14:00-15:30 Industrial Track Tutorial (room B032) (Part 3)
The CMMI Suite – an integrated approach to driving effective

and sustainable performance improvement in turbulent times

Jay Douglass, SEI
Thematick Tracks (in parallel)
1. Quality in ICT Verification and Validation (room I-105)
2. ICT Process Improvement and Assessment (room B232C)
3. Quality in ICT Requirements Engineering (room B030)
4. Quality in Web Engineering (room B226)
5. Quality in ICT Reengineering and Refactoring (room B024)
6. Quality in ICT Service Management (room B035)
7. Quality in Model Driven Engineering (room B331)
8. Quality Evolution in ICT (room B326)
9. Quality in Agile Methods (room B019)
10. Teaching ICT Quality (room B323)
11. Standardization and Certification in ICT (room B322)
15:30-16:00 Coffee-break and Posters Track (atrium)
16:00-17:30 Industrial Track Tutorial (room B032) (Part 4)
The CMMI Suite – an integrated approach to driving effective

and sustainable performance improvement in turbulent times

Jay Douglass, SEI
Thematick Tracks (in parallel)
(continuation of tracks 1 to 11)
17:30-18:30 Welcome drink (atrium)


For those staying in hotels in the Boavista area (see accommodation) there is a bus provided by the conference with the following timetable:

  • pickup at hotels: starts at 7:45
  • pickup at FEUP (return to hotels): 18:30



Day 2 - 30th September


Time Day 2 - 30th September
08:00-09:00 Registration (reception desk)
09:00-09:40 Opening Session (auditorium)
João Pascoal Faria (Organizing Chair)
Fernando Brito e Abreu (Program Chair)
Maria José Brito (IPQ)
Raul Vidal (University of Porto)
09:40-10:20 Keynote Speakers - Session 1 (auditorium)
Teaching ICT Quality - Stephen B. Seidman http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~quatic2010/keynote/QUATIC%2710-TeachingICT_Quality.pdf
10:20-10:40 Coffee-break and Posters Track (atrium)
10:40-12:40 Main Track - Session 1 (auditorium)
Industrial Track - Session 1 (room B032)
Chair: João Pascoal Faria
Experiments with Adding to the Experience that Can be Acquired from Software Courses
Robert Dupuis, Roger Champagne, and Alain April Normand Séguin

Conveying Conceptions of Quality through Instruction
Arnold Pears

Supporting the Definition of Software Processes at Consulting Organizations via Software Process Lines
Ahilton Barreto, Elaine Duarte, Ana Regina Rocha, and Leonardo Murta

Applying Grounded Theory to Understand Software Process Improvement Implementation
Mariano Angel Montoni and Ana Regina Rocha
Painel “Iniciativas Ibero-Americanas para a Melhoria do Processo de Desenvolvimento de Software” (Ibero-American Initiatives for Software Process Improvement)

Pesquisa - Qualidade no Setor de Software Brasileiro 2009: Resultados Preliminares
Diva da Silva Marinho - Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia (Secretaria de Política de Informática) e Coordenadora de Projetos e Indicadores Spoken in Portuguese

Melhoria de Processo do Software Brasileiro: Programa MPS.BR e Modelo MPS
Kival Chaves Weber - SOFTEX e Coordenador Executivo do Programa MPS.BR Spoken in Portuguese

Mexican TSP Initiative: moving an entire industry towards very high quality
Rafael Salazar - Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM Campus Monterrey) e Director de la Iniciativa Mexicana TSP Spoken in English

Strengthening IT SMEs´ productivity: stand out from the crowd
Félix Nanclares, European Software Institute (ESI), Spain Spoken in Spanish

Towards a more competitive Portuguese ICT industry
Artur Calado - Inova-Ria / Pólo de competitividade e tecnologia TICE.PT, Portugal Spoken in Portuguese
12:40-14:00 Lunch (atrium)
14:00-15:40 Keynote Speakers - Session 2 (auditorium)
How to Improve Process Improvement? - Karol Frühauf http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~quatic2010/keynote/QUATIC%2710-HowToImproveTheImprovementProcess.pdf
Agile Quality Management - Panagiotis Sfetsos http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~quatic2010/keynote/QUATIC%2710-AgileQualityManagement.pdf
15:40-16:00 Coffee-break and Posters Track (atrium)
16:00-18:00 Main Track - Session 2 (auditorium)
Chair: Kival Weber
Industrial Track - Session 2 (room B032)
Chair: Jorge S. Coelho
Evaluating the Effect of Agile Methods on Software Defect Data and Defect Reporting Practices - A Case Study
Kirsi Korhonen

Empirical Studies on Quality in Agile Practices: A Systematic Literature Review
Panagiotis Sfetsos and Ioannis Stamelos

Software Safety Standards for the Basis of Certification in the Nuclear Domain
Hannu Harju, Jussi Lahtinen, Jukka Ranta, Risto Nevalainen, and Mika Johansson

The Evolving Picture of Standardisation and Certification for Process Assessment
Terence P. Rout
How good is your requirements specification?
Christine Rupp - SOPHIST GmbH, Germany Spoken in English

How to align information systems requirements? - Mlearn approach
Jorge S. Coelho - SisConsult, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Spoken in English

Entorno de calidad KEMIS
Almudena Quevedo¹, Emanuel Irrazabal¹,², Juan Enríquez de Salamanca¹, Juan Manuel Vara², Javier Garzás¹,² (1 - Kybele Consulting S.L; Madrid, España / 2 - Kybele Research Group, Madrid, España Spoken in Spanish

MGPSI-Metodologia de Gestão de Projectos aplicada ao desenvolvimento de Sistemas de Informação
José Costa - Instituto de Informática do Ministério das Finanças, Portugal Spoken in Portuguese
18:00-18:15
18:15-23:00 CONFERENCE BANQUET - Gala dinner and tour in Porto Historic Centre



For those staying in hotels in the Boavista area there is a bus provided by the conference with the following timetable:

  • pickup at hotels: starts at 8:00

Return to hotels in Boavista and Asprela (FEUP) areas is provided by bus to all participants in the gala dinner, at the end of the gala dinner.

Day 3 - 1st October


Time Day 3 - 1st October
08:00-09:00 Registration (reception desk)
09:00-10:20 Keynote Speakers - Session 3 (auditorium)
ICT Service Quality: Qualitative and Quantitative - Neil McBride http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~quatic2010/keynote/QUATIC%2710-ICT_ServiceQuality-QualitativeAndQuantitative.pdf
Model Quality and Quantity - Parastoo Mohagheghi http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~quatic2010/keynote/QUATIC%2710-modelquality&quantity.pdf
10:20-10:40 Coffee-break and Posters Track (atrium)
10:40-12:40 Main Track - Session 3 (auditorium)
Chair: Karol Frühauf
Industrial Track - Session 3 (room B032)
Chair: Isabel Ferreira
Towards Specifications Patterns for Global Software Development Projects - Experiences from the Industry
Frank Salger, Jochen Englert, and Gregor Engels

Definition and Validation of Metrics for ITSM Process Models
Fernando Brito e Abreu, Raquel de Bragança V. da Porciúncula, Jorge Manuel Freitas,and José Carlos Costa

Abstract Testing: Connecting Source Code Verification with Requirements
Florian Merz, Carsten Sinz, Hendrik Post, Thomas Gorges, and Thomas Kropf

MANTra: Towards Model Transformation Testing
Andrea Ciancone, Antonio Filieri, and Raffaela Mirandola
Implementing Agile Processes for Deploying Software Processes Improvement based on Scrum at Chemtech
Taciana Melcop¹, Juliana Acchar¹, Gustavo Costa¹, Analia Irigoyen Ferreiro Ferreira², Anne Elise Katsurayama², Mariano Angel Montoni² and David Zanetti² (1 - Chemtech – A Siemens Company, Brasil / 2 - ProMove – Business Intelligence Solutions, Brasil) Spoken in Portuguese

CMMI DEV can work for us- SINFIC, SA Case Study
Isabel Ferreira - Sinfic,SA, Portugal Spoken in Portuguese

A Seleção e Implantação de Ferramentas de Apoio à Inspeção Automatizada de Código Utilizando o Six Sigma: A Experiência de uma Organização de Software Brasileira Avaliada Nível 5 do CMMI
Luiz Sérgio Plácido da Silva¹, Luciana Ferreira Trindade¹, Carla Ilane Moreira Bezerra², Gabriela Telles de Souza¹, Carlo Giovano Pires¹, Adriano Bessa Albuquerque². (1 - Instituto Atlântico, Brasil / 2 - Universidade de Fortaleza - UNIFOR, Brasil) Spoken in Portuguese

A realisation strategy for agile quality assurance focused on continuous integration and security testing
Matias Muhonen Nomovok Ltd, Finland and Eleni Berki, University of Tampere, Finland Spoken in English
12:40-13:40 Lunch (atrium)
13:40-15:40 Keynote Speakers - Session 4 (auditorium)
Approaches and Governance for On-Line Testing of Multi-Supplier Service Compositions - Antonia Bertolino
Quality and Evolution: Some Relationships - Michel Wermelinger http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~quatic2010/keynote/QUATIC'10-Quality&Evolution_SomeRelationships.pdf
Web Quality in Use: an user-driven approach - Coral Calero
15:40-16:00 Coffee-break and Posters Track (atrium)
16:00-18:00 Main Track - Session 4 (auditorium)
Chair: Stephen Seidman
Industrial Track - Session 4 (room B032)
Chair: Paulo Figueiredo
Investigating the Evolution of Bad Smells in Object-Oriented Code
Alexander Chatzigeorgiou and Anastasios Manakos

CSS Code Quality: A Metric for Abstractness – Or Why Humans Beat Machines in CSS Coding
Matthias Keller and Martin Nussbaumer

Comprehending Ajax Web Applications by the DynaRIA Tool
Domenico Amalfitano, Anna Rita Fasolino, Armando Polcaro, and Porfirio Tramontana

Improving Quality of Web-GIS Modularity Using Aspects
Ana Oliveira, Matias Urbieta, João Araújo, Armanda Rodrigues, Ana Moreira, Sílvia Gordillo and Gustavo Rossi
Through the Testing Glass
Pedro Pereira - Telbit, Portugal Spoken in Portuguese

As competências de um Tester numa equipa de projecto
Filipe Nuno Carlos - ComTest.PT, Associação Portuguesa de Testes de Software, Portugal Spoken in Portuguese

Painel “Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)“

1-MICROSOFT: Apresentação da solução Microsoft de ALM-Application Lifecycle Management
Tiago Andrade Silva – Microsoft, Portugal Spoken in Portuguese

2-IBM: Changing your Development? Improving your Software Delivery processes? Accelerate the change and achieve acceptance in your teams with Rational JAZZ. (Apresentação de um caso de estudo)
Niklas Lagerblad - Manager of IBM Rational Software IBM, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Israel Spoken in Spanish
18:00-18:40 Closing Session (auditorium)
António Moitinho (Member od the board of CS03)
Best papers awards
Best researcher award
Sebastião Feyo (Dean of FEUP)
19:30-23:45 Optional concert and dinner at Casa da Musica



For those staying in hotels in the Boavista area there is a bus provided by the conference with the following timetable:

  • pickup at hotels: 8:00
  • pickup at FEUP (return to hotels): 19:00.

For those attending the optional concert and dinner at Casa da Música there is a bus provided by the conference with the following timetable:

  • departure from FEUP at 19:00 approximately;
  • departure from Casa da Música (and return to hotels in Boavista and FEUP/Asprela areas) at 23:45 approximately.



Day 4 - 2nd October

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