[7-21]Measurement-Driven System Development Strategies...

Date:2009-07-13

Title：Measurement-Driven System Development Strategies Using Empirical Analysis of Software Systems: Software Testing, Software Reuse, and Software Architecture
Speaker：Richard Selby
Time：10 am, Tuesday, July 21
Venue：Lecture Room, Level 3 Building #5

Abstract：
Measurement-driven system development focuses on using quantitative data to evaluate capabilities, benefits, progress, and tradeoffs as well as identify improvement opportunities. This research describes an overview of measurement-driven system development using empirical analysis of software systems and discusses three example analytic studies of software testing, software reuse, and software architecture.

About the speaker：
Richard W. Selby is the Head of Software Products at Northrop Grumman Space Technology in Redondo Beach, CA. He leads a 250-person software organization and has served in this position since 2001. Previously, he was the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) in Newport Beach, CA where he managed a 105-person organization for three years. From 1985-1998, he was a Full Professor of Information and Computer Science (with tenure) at the University of California in Irvine, CA (UC Irvine).

Since 2004, he has been an Adjunct Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, CA. In 1993, he held visiting faculty positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Laboratory for Computer Science and Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, MA, and in 1992, he held a visiting faculty position at the Osaka University Department of Computer Science in Osaka, Japan.

His research focuses on development, management, and economics of large-scale mission-critical systems, software, and processes.