The Need
The IT industry in India is growing by leaps and bounds. Software export houses are growing at a rapid pace with enhanced business and customer demands. The Customer, being knowledgeable, sets higher targets from sub-contract vendors, with Quality being paramount.

One major drawback is the fact that software, unlike engineering produce, is intangible and ambiguous and has little or no product standards. Added to this is the fact that Software engineers work, more often, in styles independent of organizations, which may not be standardized or documented. Quality suffers and schedules slip, which leads to hefty penalties slapped on to the sub-contracting organization. The IT industry now demands the highest quality that goes beyond the normal standards set in the engineering industry.

The Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Penn., USA, has designed a process evaluation methodologies and standards, called the Capability Maturity Model (CMM). The objective was to provide guidance to the military services in selecting capable software contractors. The CMM evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the same. The highest level of competence, Level V, Optimizing, has so far been achieved by only seven establishments. While we have growing breed of programmers and Software engineers, the number of software quality professional needed to match them has been lagging. Hence, a large demand-supply gap exists. What the industry now needs is quality professionals with ability and drive to establish processes and take their organizations towards Certification for SEI CMM.

Also the present trend in the Market for QA professionals is that they are expected to know the basic concepts of Software Testing and the automated tools available .

In order to close this gap and to share our experience in software engineering, testing, COMPUSOL now conduct a training program aimed at training Quality and ISO professionals on Software quality assurance and CMM.

COMPUSOL was setup in 1995 and is a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider, currently developing products on Internet and Web-based solutions.


What the course offers
Definition and Standards in Software Quality

Software Development Life Cycle
Classic V-Model
Other Life cycle Models in development

Definition of a Process
The ETVX model and its application

Introduction to SEI CMM
Software Maturity Framework

The Initial Process - Level I
Issues and problems at Level

The Repeatable Process - Level II
The Key Process Areas in Level II
Goals, Practices, and IEEE, ISO Standards of

• Requirement Management
  
• Software Project Planning
  
• Software Configuration Management
  
• Software Quality assurance
  
• Software Project Tracking and Oversight
  
• Software Subcontract Management