Beng K Chiu

20040191743, Sep 30, 2004

Mar 26, 2003

10/400256

Beng Chiu - San Jose CA, US
Wanda Sarti - Lago Vista TX, US
William Woodworth - Cary NC, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G09B007/00

434/322000

A software development self-assessment is a guide to good software development practices that have been adopted by experienced software developers that have produced quality software. The present system encourages self-assessors to evaluate themselves over a period of time, gauge progress, and calibrates those assessments against metrics that measure the quality of their software products. The use of good software-development practices results in lower cost of software development, improved quality of the software product, increased customer satisfaction, and lower service cost for the software product. The present system stimulates the adoption of practices that may not have been employed within a development group. In addition, the present system can be used to further the implementation of such practices to the entire development organization. The present system also addresses dependency management and risk assessment, and enhances practice-sharing, as questions related to good practices are asked of various project members or team leads which lead to a possible comparison of practice usage calibrated to measured quality of software products.

20060005182, Jan 5, 2006

Jul 1, 2004

10/883127

John Butterweck - Livermore CA, US
James Campbell - Los Gatos CA, US
Beng Chiu - San Jose CA, US
James Zimmer - San Jose CA, US

G06F 9/445

717175000

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for delivery of software. A snapshot module is included to create a snapshot of development software libraries still in a development phase, the development software libraries comprising substantially an entire replacement set of software code. A testing module is included to apply a set of tests to the snapshot to ensure that the snapshot is substantially free from defects and a delivery module delivers the snapshot to a user. The snapshot may be configured for a mainframe computer operating system such that a previous version of the software code is replaced in a single operation. The mainframe computer operating system may be the z/OS operating system.