SQM 2012 Conference Topics:
- Software process improvement with software tools, development methodologies and frameworks
- Agile development methods and software quality assurance
- Capability maturity models
- Measuring and evaluating quality and process improvement
- Achieving software quality standards
- Metrics, estimation and testing
- Project management and quality
- Patterns and anti-patterns and their effects on quality management
- Trust, security and software quality
- Human, cultural, professional and ethical issues of quality
- The need for quality standards for the Internet and the semantic web
- Assessing the quality of software architectures
- Quality issues in product families and systems engineering
- Outsourcing and technology transfer
- Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) initiatives and software quality
- Organisational knowledge creation and management
- E-Health, e-Government and e-Business: software quality implications
- Electronic communication: quality and effectiveness
- Designing quality by identifying specific groups needs
- Using the web and ICT means to provide quality solutions
- Network security and integrity
- Intellectual copyright, data protection and other legal and ethical issues
- Software reliability and usability
- Risk management and intercultural management issues
- Software tools and software quality
- Green issues in computing
- Social responsibility
- Quality and Requirements Management
- Quality aspects of Social Computing
This year we particularly welcome papers that emphasise Software Quality and e-Health Systems, Usability and Human Technologies.