Bill Curtis with Consortium for Information and Software Quality

The Industrial Talk Podcast with Scott MacKenzie

Industrial Talk is onsite at OMG, Q1 Meeting and talking to Bill Curtis, Executive Director with the Consortium for Information and Software Quality about "ISO 5055 - Software quality standards to positively impacting industry".

The conversation centered around the importance of prioritizing software quality to improve productivity and reduce costs. The speakers highlighted the significant financial costs associated with software quality issues and emphasized the need for implementing and applying software security standards in the industry. They also discussed automated source code quality measures and the importance of software quality standards and certification, with one speaker expressing a preference for free and open-source software and the other emphasizing the need for a certification exam to test developers' knowledge of ISO 5055.

Action Items

• [ ] Update ISO/IEC 5055 to include new measures around data protection and resource sustainability.
• [ ] Submit annexes to ISO/IEC 5055 covering the new measures.
• [ ] Develop a certification exam on ISO/IEC 5055 through OMG for developers and quality assurance professionals.
• [ ] Connect with Bill Curtis via ACM.org or LinkedIn for more information on software quality standards and initiatives.

Outline

Software quality, technical debt, and cost of poor quality software.

• Dr. Bill Curtis, leading expert on capability maturity model, discusses software bombs and cybersecurity.
• Bill discusses the high cost of poor quality software, citing a report that estimates $1.5 trillion in annual costs.
• Bill emphasizes the importance of executive management in protecting the development team from unnecessary requirements and technical debt.

Software quality issues and their costs in the billions.

• Bill: Technical debt costs in the 9-10 digits, with estimates reaching $175 million pounds.
• Bill: Quantifying technical debt is challenging, but public sources provide reasonably based estimates.
• Expert panel identified 75 serious weaknesses in software systems.

Software security weaknesses and how to address them using static analysis technology.

• OMG developed a standard for software security, ISO approved it in 2021.
• Bill: Setting thresholds for software weaknesses in contracts with suppliers.
• Bill: Static analysis technology helps evaluate existing systems for security vulnerabilities.
• Bill: System-level weaknesses require prioritization, not just code-level fixes.
• Companies work with partners for security weakness identification and remediation.

Software quality standards and ISO 5055.

• Bill discusses the importance of keeping ISO standards up-to-date, citing examples of expanded weaknesses and sustainability issues.
• OMG team is responsible for updating the ISO standard, relying on submitters to keep it current, and adding new annexes for data protection and resource sustainability.
• Bill discusses submitting additional measures to improve software quality, while Scott promotes connecting with Bill Curtis for expertise on software quality standards.

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BILL CURTIS' CONTACT INFORMATION:

Personal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-curtis-bab9985/ Company Website: https://www.it-cisq.org/standards/code-quality-standards/

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