Teaching software inspections to NASA engineers

"A long history of applied research has helped us to understand the parameters for effective software inspections. We have trained engineers at multiple NASA centers to perform effective inspections and have created inspection programs tailored to fit the NASA development process."

- Dr. Forrest Shull

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We do modeling, design and architecture

Evaluating architectures of implemented systems

"We have applied our architecture evaluation methods to analyze the software implementation quality with respect to testability, legal compliance and security at several organizations including NASA, the FDA and JHU/APL. We have also applied our technology to migrate existing stand-alone software systems into a common product line architecture and to integrate open-source and closed-source solutions in several domains, such as engine control systems and photo copy machines."

- Dr. Dharma Ganesan

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We do process and product measurement

Evaluating IT strategies at EcoPetrol

"EcoPetrol chose to improve their IT infrastructure so that it can provide higher information quality as part of a strategy to increase their business revenue. We applied our GQM+Strategies method to define concrete measures of the information quality (e.g., uniqueness, completeness, consistency, and timeliness) generated by the IT processes, to help understand the impact of their chosen strategy in achieving their strategic business goal, and to concretely demonstrate the value of IT-related activities within the overall EcoPetrol business"

- Dr. Madeline Diep

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We do reliability, safety, and security analysis

Securing medical devices

We work with medical device companies to secure their products against malicious hacking and data theft. Fraunhofer has developed an analysis methodology that enable us to detect security vulnerabilities and provide countermeasures.

- Dr. Arnab Ray

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We do process improvement and best practices

Implementing high-maturity concepts at Keymind

"Fraunhofer has collaborated with several organizations on process improvement initiatives. At Keymind, we contributed software development and measurement expertise and provided automated solutions to effectively implement CMMI®-compliant and high maturity processes. As a result, Keymind is seeing measurable positive impact on their business goals and was rated CMMI®-DEV Maturity Level 5."

- Ms. Michele A. Shaw

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We do technology evaluation

Evaluating the risk of modifying code in the NASA Space Network

"We applied our SAVE technology suite to evaluate the NASA Space Network legacy code to help NASA engineers understand the risk of modifiying components in their system. We delivered interactive media to Space Network project managers that contained custom metrics and models of risk in their system, and allowed them to visually display and step through the high-risk portions of their architecture."

- Dr. Mikael Lindvall

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We do program, project and risk management

Developing software acquisitions plans at NASA

"We developed the Software Acquisition Management Plan to allow NASA to gain insight into the software development activities for the complete replacement of the Space Network ground station at White Sands. NASA project management follows this plan to mitigate technical, cost and schedule risks in the software-intensive Space Network Ground Support Segment (SGSS) project."

- Mr. Frank Herman

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We do program, project and risk management

Developing software acquisitions plans at NASA

- Mr. Frank Herman

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News

19 Apr 2013

Fraunhofer Researchers Receive NASA Award

17 Apr 2013

Fraunhofer Director Leads New Multimedia Edition of Prestigious Publication

05 Mar 2013

Updated date for March CMMI® for Services (CMMI®-SVC) class

14 Dec 2012

Fraunhofer 2013 public course offering schedule released

09 Jul 2012

Upcoming Course Offering: "Measurement Fundamentals and Practical Implementation" - August 15-16, 2012

08 Jul 2012

Upcoming course offering: "Introduction to CMMI® for Services Version 1.3" - September 18-20, 2012

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Resources

Guide to Advanced Empirical Software Engineering

Dr. Forrest Shull, division director for Measurement and Knowledge Management at CESE, has co-edited a book on methods for empirical software engineering research. This reference book includes chapters from some of the top international empirical software engineering researchers and focuses on the practical knowledge necessary for conducting, reporting and using empirical methods in software engineering.

The Software Architecture Visualization and Evaluation (SAVE) tool

The Software Architecture Visualization and Evaluation (SAVE) tool visualizes and evaluates software architectures. It extracts the software architecture from your software systems and visualizes it in a powerful graphical user interface. The architecture can then be compared to a planned design.

Course Offerings

Fraunhofer CESE offers a number training courses for professionals on topics including:

Our public offerings are held in our new classroom at the Fraunhofer offices. Upon request, all courses can be given for private groups and at customer facilities.

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