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Quality for Grid & Grid for Quality: sharing experiences and perspectives of Grid and Open Source communities (2/2)
(90 mins)
Andrea Manieri (EchoGRID), Matteo Melideo (QualiPSo)
Quality assurance is usually a matter of big companies. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Research consortia and Opens Source projects haven’t enough time and resources to apply quality process guidelines such as the ISO or CMMi ones.
Open Source(OS) world started several initiatives involving industries and academies to cope with this issue (e.g. QualiPSo and QUALOSS). In parallel some grid related research projects are intensifying attempt to exploit grid technology to improve the quality of the software produced (e.g. ETICS).
This workshop is promoted by EchoGRID, an international cooperation initiative on grid technology among EU and Chinese researchers. It’s co-organised by QualiPSo project, the major EU initiative on quality in Open Source. The focus of the workshop is to bring together Grid experts and quality assurance experts to cross-fertilise the two worlds and promote further joint initiatives.
Quality Assurance (QA) is usually just a matter of big companies. They use to structure their internal software development processes according to a set of widely recognised guidelines (ISO or CMMi). Several studies show that many Small/Medium Enterprises can’t afford the effort required from them. The same apply for research or Open Source projects. As an example, according to “Metrics Best Practices� (Kulik&Weber 2002) only 25% of companies are at least at CMM level 2 and not more than 70 organizations reach level 5 in the world (50 of them are in India). Typical Quality Assurance models are based on standard processes and parallel activities that need to be adequate to the volume of the business. SMEs rarely start their business having a certification unless the market strongly requires it (to work in defence markets, e.g. with NATO, require the AQAP-1606). In general the overall effect of several factors (e.g. competences on QA, time to be spent on activities perceived as no-core, and a general scepticism in the actual possibility of getting results) causes many companies to avoid any type of QA activities.
In the wide Open Source environment several initiatives are focusing on how to improve quality of the software, by adapting existing approaches or developing new solutions for the benefit of both industries and academies. As an example QualiPSo project, co-organising this workshop, is aiming at define and implement technologies to fuel innovation and quality with and for Open Source software. Another example is QUALOSS, also endorsing this initiative, that is working on a platform to automate the quality measurement of open source software using tools to analyse source code and project-repository information. Several Grid projects are also interested in quality assurance. EchoGRID, the other organiser of the workshop, is carrying out actions to endorse communication between Europe and China about the current and further quality best practices. ETICS, (recently started its phase 2), is both developing a tool to automate building and testing and a model (Grid-QCM) based on quality metrics automatically calculated. LHC adopted QA methods to develop robust and scalable grid applications. ETSI TC-GRID, the grid working group of EU telecoms, is interested in formal standards and test specifications to achieve high levels of interoperability, hence the overall quality of telecom applications. MIMOS, a private Malaysian Company, certified CMM3, investigating quality assurance methods for grid in the electronics and manufacturing industries.
This workshop is promoted by EchoGRID (a international cooperation initiative on Grid standards among EU and China, supported by the European Commission) and QualiPSo (an EU-funded project, promoting an alliance among European, Brazilian and Chinese Open Source players). In this workshop one of the main objectives is the cross-fertilisation between people from different countries and from parallel research environments. Grid and QA experts will share best practices and needs hopefully finding the best approach to quality assurance adoption in their own environment. Seven speeches have been selected due to their quality-related activities in Grid and Open Source. A final round-table discussion will pave the way for further joint initiatives on standardisation and research.
The Grid speakers will represent EchoGRID, ETICS2, LHC project and MIMOS Grid Computing Centre.
The Open Source world will be represented from QualiPSo and QUALOSS.
Agenda:
Session 1 (90’)
10’ Welcome and introduction
20’ Trust in Open Source software development (QualiPSo project)
20’ Grid quality best practices in Electronics and Manufacturing industries (MIMOS Grid Computing Centre, Malaysia)
20’ Quality Assurance and Grid technology: EU-China Cooperation perspectives (EchoGrid project)
20’ Building robust grid service with minimal human intervention (LHC project)
Session 2 (90’)
20’ Quality automation in Open Source software (QUALOSS project)
20’ GridQCM, grid technology for quality automation: a theoretical approach (ETICS project)
40’ Open discussion
10 Wrap-up and Conclusions
Location: Barcelona A
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| | Slides: Agenda |
| | Slides: ECHOGRID - Manieri |
| | Slides: ETICS - Rippa |
| | Slides: LHC - Mendez Lorenzo |
| | Slides: MIMOS - Ming |
| | Slides: QUALIPSO - Sillitti |
| | Slides: QUALOSS - Fleurial Monfils |