CHOOSE Forum 2009
Tudor Girba - The humane software assessment
Time: 2:50 pm - 3:35 pm
About Tudor Girba
Tudor Girba attained his PhD in 2005 from the University of Berne, Switzerland, and he now works as a consultant at Sw-eng. Software Engineering GmbH. His interests lie in the area of software engineering with focus on software assessment. He is one of the main architects and developers of the Moose analysis platform, and he participated in the development of several other assessment tools, models and techniques. He is the president of the Moose Association and the Treasurer of the Swiss Group for Object-Oriented Systems and Environments (CHOOSE).
Talk abstract
Software assessment is an inherently human activity. Great tools are a prerequisite, but eventually it is the human that has to understand and take decisions. Furthermore, out-of-the-box reporting tools are not always useful as they need to be tailored to the specifics of the system, and to the flow of analysis that is desired by the analyst.
I argue for an assessment process that is centered around humans rather than around tools. The talk accompanied by examples derived from building and using the Moose analysis platform.