| Title | Developing International Standards for Software and Systems Engineering |
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Dr. S. Muralidharan |
Abstract
“With advancements in technology in ubiquitous computing, service oriented architectures, embedded systems, new paradigms like agile methodology and others, organizations have to adopt these advancements in their software and systems processes. This requires that the existing international standards have to be upgraded and new ones have to be created so that the developments are consistent across different countries. ISO and IEC have been setting the standards with international participation over the last 25 years releasing about 280+ standard documents. However in recent times, the thrust on the standard definitions had increased due to various technology developments and also the increase in the participation from various countries. India with its achievements in the IT industry over the last years, is taking active part in the standards formulation at international level.
ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee (JTC1) / Sub Committee (SC7) is the organization which is setting the standards for systems and software engineering with active participation from over 164 countries. The Indian National Body for Standards is Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) which is working with NASSCOM in representing India in this initiative. NASSCOM has set up an India Mirror Committee (IMC) with more than 60 representatives from industry and academia. Several IT organizations participate actively in the IMC. IMC is involved in about 13 out of 16 Working Groups (WG) in areas such as IT Architecture, ITeS, Software Engineering process, Software Metrics, Tools and Environment, Software Documentation etc. About 40 Indian representatives are editors or co editors in various standards currently in progress. India also coordinates the workgroup involved in defining standards for IT services.
The key note address covers about a description of the process of standards formulation and the challenges being faced in standards for various new technologies and paradigms.”
Biography
Dr. S. Muralidharan is the Chief Scientist and the Head of “Decision Sciences and Algorithms Lab” in Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). The Lab focuses on Optimization algorithms, project and program risk management models, Supply chain and logistics applications. He has more than 35 years experience in research, quality models and implementation and technical training. He is the India coordinator for Work group 6 (WG6) in ISO / IEC JTC1 / SC7 for setting international standards for software and systems engineering. The work group WG6 is involved in developing international standards for software and systems quality measurements.
