Software Improvement Group
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The Software Improvement Group (SIG) was founded in 2000 as a spin-off of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), a Dutch research centre for mathematics and theoretical computer science in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. SIG is an international software company known for its software assurance platform Sigrid and specialized consulting services, which focus on software quality assurance and maintainability. SIG has the largest software analysis database in the world with more than 35 billion lines of code across hundreds of technologies.
Every year SIG releases the benchmark report, where it reports on the state of software quality in the world.[1] In March 2016, SIG published two books: Building Maintainable Software[2] and Building Maintainable Teams.[3] SIG is headquartered in Amsterdam with regional offices in New York, Copenhagen, Antwerp, and Frankfurt. In 2021 SIG acquired certification company EXIN,[4] an independent examination institute focusing on competencies required in the digital world.
Certification
The SIG methodology includes standardized, repeatable measurements of source code based on the ISO/IEC 25010:2011 standard for software product quality. SIG operates a software evaluation laboratory governed by the Quality Management System as required by the ISO/IEC 17025 international standard for testing and calibration laboratories. SIG is one of the first organizations in the world certified by TÜViT for Trusted Product Maintainability.
Research
SIG has had a strong focus on research since its creation as a spin-off of the CWI. The main research within SIG is focused on the measurement of software quality. This has led in 2007 to the model for quantitative measurement of maintainability from source code,[5] conforming to ISO 9126 (which was later replaced by ISO 25010) standard. Several of the later refinements and improvements have been published in peer-reviewed publications.[6][7] Other research topics include e.g. technical debt,[8] green software,[9][10] and risks of software libraries.[11] The research team takes an active role in several academia-industry research programs that will shape the future of software measurement and analytics, such as FASTEN,[12] I-CAVE,[13] and Codefeedr.[14]
Contribution to standards
SIG is involved in Netherlands Standardization Institute, the Dutch representative of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), in contributing to standards, both in the areas of systems and software engineering (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7) and artificial intelligence (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42). SIG contributes to a range of security standardization initiatives, with European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), with Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) (SAMM and the OWASP Integration Standards), with Dutch organizations Centre Information Security and Privacy Protection (CIP) and Nationaal Cyber Security Centre, and by driving initiatives to harmonize standards, such as openCRE.org.[15]
References
- ↑ "Research from Software Improvement Group reveals trends in software build quality, impacts of COVID-19 on development productivity". Retrieved April 11, 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Visser, Joost (2016). Building Maintainable Software. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 9781491953525. Search this book on
- ↑ Visser, Joost (2016). Building Software Teams. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 9781491951774. Search this book on
- ↑ "Software Improvement Group (SIG) acquires EXIN". iTechnology Series. July 2, 2021. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
- ↑ Heitlager, I., Kuipers, T., & Visser, J. "A practical model for measuring maintainability - A preliminary report". QUATIC 2007 - 6th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology: 30–39.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
- ↑ R Baggen, JP Correia, K Schill, J Visser. "Standardized code quality benchmarking for improving software maintainability". Software Quality Journal 20 (2): 287–307.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
- ↑ TL Alves, C Ypma, J Visser. "Deriving metric thresholds from benchmark data". 2010 IEEE international conference on software maintenance: 1–10.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
- ↑ Nugroho, Visser, Kuipers. "An empirical model of technical debt and interest". Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on managing technical debt, 1-8.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
- ↑ Miguel A. Ferreira, Eric Hoekstra, Bo Merkus, Bram Visser, Joost Visser. "Seflab: A lab for measuring software energy footprints". 2013 2nd International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software (GREENS).CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
- ↑ Georgios Kalaitzoglou, Magiel Bruntink, Joost Visser. "A Practical Model for Evaluating the Energy Efficiency of Software Applications" (PDF). 2nd International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S 2014).CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
- ↑ Steven Raemaekers, Arie Van Deursen, Joost Visser. "Measuring software library stability through historical version analysis". 2012 28th IEEE international conference on software maintenance (ICSM): 378–387.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
- ↑ FASTEN
- ↑ I-CAVE
- ↑ Codefeedr
- ↑ openCRE.org
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