Author: Tracie Berardi The Heartbleed Bug reinforces the need to monitor the quality of open source software OpenSSL came under fire this past week through the now infamous Heartbleed bug. This open source encryption software is used by over 500,000 websites, including Google, Facebook, and Yahoo to protect their customers’... Read more →

Author: Tracie Berardi The retail security crisis continues… A recent Wall Street Journal article exposed potential issues with Bitcoin’s transaction network. This left Tokyo-based Mt. Gox exchange and Gavin Andresen, Chief Scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation, pointing fingers at each other. So far the retail industry has felt the pain... Read more →

Author: Tracie Berardi Last week Phil Libin, the CEO of Evernote, wrote an honest blog article titled “On Software Quality and Building a Better Evernote in 2014.” It was in response to an initial blog article by Jason Kinkaid which criticized Evernote for a decline in quality over the last... Read more →

CISQ hosted its latest Technology Executive Roundtable at the Marriott at Grand Central (NYC). The topic for this installment was “Software Robustness and Resiliency in Capital Markets”, and featured the following speakers: Corey Booth, Partner and Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group; Dr. Bill Curtis, Director, CISQ; JP Chauvet, Chief Architect... Read more →

Author: Stuart Selip Building, maintaining, and enhancing high quality software is not a trivial exercise, yet it is critical to software-based startups. Entering the marketplace with a feature-laden but unstable, insecure, difficult to enhance, and poorly performing product ensures a fast track to startup failure. Producing high quality software demands... Read more →

Author: V.Kharytonov Software measurements and metrics: fundamentals (on the example of eGovernment and eCommerce) With the recent establishment of new regulatory bodies and eGovernment organizations, the growth of software developers and quality assurance professionals has almost doubled in the past 2-3 years. To ensure the sound and more predictable development.... Read more →

A fine example of a problem posed by software risk was over a decade ago when the then CIO of the United States Air Force divulged that the US military forces were dependent on hundreds of thousands of copies of a specific piece of software. This piece of software compromised... Read more →