One way to improve the confidence of delivering a quality product within budget and schedule is by having software development organizations implement recognized software quality assurance practices. Unfortunately, in many organizations, Software Quality Assurance (SQA) is just a synonym for testing. SQA covers a wide spectrum of software engineering practices to provide a level of confidence that the software developed or maintained will meet the functional and performance requirements of the customer and will be delivered within schedule and budget. 

Very Small Entities (VSEs) are enterprises, organisations (e.g., public or non-profit organisations), projects or departments having up to 25 people. VSEs are very important to the worldwide economy. However, it has been established that VSEs often do not utilize existing systems and software engineering standards. To address the needs of VSEs, a set of international standards and guides, the ISO/IEC 29110 series, has been developed. The ISO/IEC 29110 series, such as the management and engineering guides, is targeted at VSEs developing software products or systems that are typically composed of hardware and software components. 

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12:00 - 12:05   | Bienvenida y presentación general

12:05 - 12:10   | Presentación de conferencista

12:10 - 13:00   | Conferencia

13:00 - 13:30  | Sesión de preguntas y respuestas

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Dr. Claude Y Laporte has been a professor since 2000 at the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), a 11,000-student engineering school, where he teaches software engineering. His research interests include software process improvement in small and very small organisations, as well as software quality assurance. He has worked in defence and transportation enterprises for over 20 years. He received a master’s degree in Physics from the Université de Montréal, a master’s degree  in applied sciences from the École Polytechnique de Montréal and a Ph.D. from the Université de Bretagne Occidentale (France). He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Universidad de San Martin de Porres (Peru) in 2013. 

Since 2005, he is the Lead Editor of the ISO/IEC 29110 series of systems and software engineering life cycle standards and guides developed specifically for Very Small Entities. He is the Co-chair of the INCOSE Systems Engineering for Very Small Entities WG. He is a member of INCOSE and life member of IEEE. He has been a member of the professional association of engineers of the Province of Québec. He is the co-author of two French books, on software quality assurance, published in 2011 by Hermes ScienceLavoisier and a 620-page English textbook, on the same topic, published by John Wiley and Sons in 2018. The Software Quality Assurance book has been translated in 2021 in Spanish and will be translated in simplified Chinese in 2022. 

Dr. Laporte is a co-author of a French book titled “Les Clés de l’Ingénierie des Systèmes”, published in 2017, targeted at managers of small systems engineering organizations. An English version, titled ‘Systems Engineering Practices for Small and Medium Enterprises’, has been published by INCOSE in 2022.