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	10 March 2010

Welcome to the website of the

United Kingdom Software Metrics Association.

UKSMA is a user group, a non-profit organisation that exists only to promote and improve the use of software measurement.

We do this by facilitating communication and the sharing of expertise in various ways both within and beyond UKSMA, and launching certain initiatives; see the MEMBERS page for more detail.

Membership of UKSMA is free. To become a member click on the Member tab above. Nearly all our expenditure goes on organizing an annual conference, and tutorials. Our income comes only from those events (all of which are very modestly priced) and a small commission on sales of ISBSG products.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 21st Annual UKSMA Conference is to be held
on October 14th 2010, at the Union Jack Club, Waterloo, London UK.

The conference affords the opportunity to share experiences, ideas, case studies, and strategies for widening the relevance, appeal and benefit of measurement to the management of software development and maintenance.

The theme of the conference this year ‘THE PROCESS OF SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT’ is wide ranging to reflect the increasing diverse nature of software measurement and changes in the software development community.

We are keen to receive submissions/abstracts on the topics of:

• innovative and original approaches to software measurement;
• introduction of measurement to software development environments;
• the presentation of measurement data to aid decision making;
• best practice in measurement;
• estimation;
• measurement use in contracts or outsourced arrangements;
• the use and benefits of measurement data;
• measurement in CMMI, ITIL, Prince2 and ISO contexts.

Case studies of these topics that provide a balanced view of the development and use of measurement would be particularly welcome.

You are invited to submit papers or presentations to conferences@uksma.co.uk.

Please submit a short description (a précis’) summarising your presentation. Each presenter has 45 minutes, including 10 minutes for questions.

It would be appreciated if you would indicate your intention to submit a paper as soon as possible even if a précis’ is not yet available, so that we can gauge the response.

The deadline for Précis’ submission is 10 Mar 2010.

Notification of acceptance by 09 Apr 2010.

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