First Quarter Newsletter (January - March 2007)

Sessions from Jan to Mar 07

a) Date: 29 th jan'07

First knowledge sharing for the year 2007

Topic: An overview of Psychometric Testing & Assessment Practice” related to a practice of P-CMM.

Speaker : Dr. Ms. Krithka,

About the Speaker: Consultant of Assessment practice of Ma Foi consultants, Clinical Psychologist, and a student counselor for CBSE School

b) Date:: 14 th Feb'07

Topic: Effective usage of testing tools for automation

About the Topic : This session emphazies on the Technical Facets of the Silk test and SilkCentral Test Manager, to enable monitoring & keeping track of different test initiatives being carried out within the project teams.

In the session Mr. Jay presented a framework that would enable reduction of the regression efforts and would thus enhance productivity and accelerate time-to-market and thereby calculate the ROI. Also suggested few techniques / best practices in transitioning existing products to other technology.

Speaker: Mr. Jay Swamidass, Technical Manager of QuEdge

•  Date: 13 th March'07

Topic: One Page Management System (OPMS).

Speaker: Mr. G.S Chandy

About the Speaker:

Systems Scientist ( http://www.i-sum.org ) who is an international IM community member and he is working closely with Mr. John N Warfield ( www.jnwarfield.com ) who is the creator of the system science over couple of decades.

•  Date: 26 th March'07

Topic: ISO standards pertinent to the software Industry - An Overview

About the Topic: There are various ISO standards suitable for software industry, but are not known to many software professionals. Most of the software organizations are aware of only few standards like ISO 9001:2000, ISO 27001 etc . This session gives an overview of all suitable ISO standards for software industry.

Speaker : Mr. D Satyaprakash,

About the speaker: Mr. D. Satyaprakash is a Lead Auditor, Det Norske Veritas AS (DNV)

•  Bachelors in Electronics & Telecommunications & Masters in Business Administration (Marketing).

•  He has work experience over 17 yrs in various fields of Quality and Marketing.

•  Since last 5 yrs Worked he is with DNV as Lead Auditor for Quality Management Systems (ISO 9001) / Information Security Management Systems (ISO 27001) /  Information Technology Service management Systems (ISO 20000) / OHSAS 18001.

•  Worked with Siemens Ltd for 12 yrs at various capacities in Projects / Quality Assurance / Manufacturing & Marketing (in various locations).

•  Mr. Prakash is a Qualified Lead Tutor for IRCA (International Registrar for Certificated Auditors) for QMS / ISMS for conducting Lead Auditor and Internal Auditor course. He has experience of more than 800 mandays of audits and 200 mandays of trainings.

•  He is member of ISACA, member in International Quality Rating System – Best Practices,

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Articles from the Industry
We would like to share one interesting article on Secured Coding Standards written by Mr. James W. Moore , The MITRE Corporation, Robert C. Seacord , Software Engineering Institute  

Inherent weaknesses in programming languages contribute to software vulnerabilities. Increasingly, organizations are producing standards to improve software security. Current efforts to develop software security standards are surveyed, and two such efforts are described in detail. An international standards group is writing a document providing guidance to users of programming languages on how to avoid the vulnerabilities that exist in the programming language selected for a particular project. Carnegie Mellon University 's (CMU's) Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) is developing secure coding practices for the C and C++ programming languages 1 The detailed article can be viewed at

http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/CrossTalk/2007/03/0703MooreSeacord.html .  

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