Formal Peer Inspection Information Architecture (slides - PDF)

Presenter: Gilda Pour, San Jose State University & NRC Research Associate, Ames Research Center

Abstract: Software development formal peer inspection is a major activity required for software quality improvement and risk mitigation in software development. The main objective of software development formal peer inspection is to detect and remove software development defects early and efficiently while the defects are less expensive to correct. For software development formal peer inspection to succeed at distributed enterprise level, there is a need for an IT infrastructure to support intellectual collaborations in geographically distributed environments. A major problem in building such an IT infrastructure is the lack of customizable, extensible, and flexible Web-based enterprise architecture to support location-transparent access of authorized users to heterogeneous inspection documents and tools over the Internet. The inspection documents and the API of inspection tools do not necessarily have the same formats and structures, and are located on different platforms, and in different physical and logical locations over the Internet. We have investigated this problem. In this talk, we present an overview of our on-going research project.

Bio: Gilda Pour is a software engineering professor at San Jose State University. She is also a National Research Council (NRC) Research Associate at NASA Ames Research Center, and the Director of Enterprise Components Laboratory at SJSU. Dr. Pour has research and consulting experience wit Hewlett-Packard R&D Labs, Sun Microsystems, IBM, NASA, Air Force/Rome Laboratory, and NCSA. Her research and publications lie in the area of enterprise software engineering, and have special emphasis on component-based and agent-oriented software development of architectures and frameworks for Web-based enterprise application systems. Dr. Pour holds a doctoral degree and a D.Eng. in Computer & Information Sciences and Engineering/Software Engineering.