Institute Name: DELTA Danish Electronics, Light & Acoustics
Description: DELTA is an independent non-profit organisation under the auspices of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences. DELTA was created on October 1st 1993 by a merger of three companies: ElektronikCentralen, Light & Optics, and the Danish Acoustical Institute. The ElectronikCentralen part of DELTA was founded in 1967 and is based in Horsholm, Denmark, which is also the main office of DELTA. It currently has a staff of approximately 190 people. It is organised in six divisions:
DELTA is a partner in the ESPRIT 3 project SQUID. DELTA's role in the project is to work on the SQUID model and approach to quality. Furthermore DELTA is active in standardisation related to SQUID results. DELTA was in the ESPRIT 1 project REQUEST and acted as a subproject leader of "Quality Modelling, Measurement and Prediction". This subproject developed the COnstructive QUAlity MOdel (COQUAMO). Recently DELTA participated in the ESPRIT 2 project SCOPE (Software CertificatiOn Programme in Europe). DELTA acted as leader of the Case Study subtask which involved more than 30 manyears of effort. The effort in the Software Engineering Division is focused on four areas:Software development: This area includes both research oriented development of precompetitative laboratory equipment, prototypes, and commercial development of software typically in specialised areas where it is necessary to draw on unique expertise from different divisions of DELTA.
Software productivity: This includes consultancy related to software metrics, software project planning and management, and software development methods and tools with special emphasis on productivity aspects. Services for evaluation of productivity and process maturity are being offered with special emphasis on small and medium sized companies. A soft*ware development model, SPU, has been developed. It is widely accepted and applied in Danish industry.
Software quality: This includes software product evaluation and assessment based on the MicroScope approch, which is our preliminary implementation of results from the SCOPE project (Software Certification Programme in Europe). Also services concerned with process evaluation and quality systems are provided. DELTA is a member of the ITQS agreement group (Assessment and Certification of Quality Systems in Information Technology) which offers services against the requirements in the EN 29000 series. The ITQS is accepted by ECITC. DELTA is accredited to issue certificates against EN 29000.
Software test: This includes consultancy related to test planning and reporting, and development of test suites and automatic generation of test cases for communication protocols. Conformance testing services will be provided this year in the areas of IEEE 488 protocol testing and FDT support tools for Lotos and SDL.
Associated with DELTA is the society Datatechnical Forum which counts approximately 60 Danish companies with major interest in software development. DELTA provides secratary services to Datatechnical Forum and organises seminars for member companies. A particular important activity is the management of 8 experience groups covering areas like project management, software quality, methods and tools, knowledge based systems, and man-machine interaction. These groups give DELTA a unique opportunity to follow closely trends and problems in the software industry. On behalf of Datatechnical Forum DELTA carries out technology investigations of general interest to the member companies. DELTA also acts as coordinator of projects involving more member companies. Usually the main results of such projects will be made available to all members or to the public in general through the ECR report series.
DELTA is one of the main Danish providers of technical seminars and continuous education training courses for engineers and software developers. Activity areas include software development methods, programming languages, software testing configuration management, project management, and quality assurance.
Researchers associated with the project:
Name: Jorgen Boegh
Nationality: Danish
Academic Qualifications & Experience: Jorgen Boegh has a degree in mathematics and computer science from Aarhus University (1979).
Jorgen Boegh is currently with DELTA in the Software Engineering division working as a project manager. He has been involved in research in personal safety of microprocessor systems. He was involved in the ESPRIT I project REQUEST (REliability and QUality ESTimation) from 1985 to 87. From 1986 to 89 he was responsible for DELTA's participation in the MAP projects 'Network Security' and 'Software Integrity'. In 1988 and 89 he managed an industrial collaborate project on integration of computer aided engineering tools within the electronics industry. From 1989 to 93 he was involved in the ESPRIT II project SCOPE (Software Certification Programme in Europe) and from 1994 he has been responsible for DELTA's participation in the ESPRIT III project SQUID (Software QUality In the Development process) as well as the ESSI project PET (Prevention of Errors through Test). He is an active member of the international standardisation group ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7 and works as the editor of ISO/IEC 14598 Part 3 and Part 6. His research interests include software quality specification and evaluation, software metrics and software best practices.
Selected publications:
J. Boegh, S. de Panfilis: SQUID: A Method for Managing Software Quality During the Development, in Proc. Product Assurance Symposium and Software Product Assurance Workshop, European Space Agency, March 1996.
J. Boegh: Evaluation Modules: The Link between Theory and Practice, in Proc. Software Engineering Standards, IEEE ISESS95, August 1995.
D. Welzel, H.-L. Hausen, J. Boegh: A Metric-based Software Evaluation Method, Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, Vol. 3, 181-194, 1993.
J. Boegh: Standardisation of Evaluation Modules for Software Evaluation, in Proc. of the Sixth International Conference on Software Engineering & its Applications, November 1993.
J. Boegh, H.-L. Hausen, D. Welzel: A Practioners guide to Evaluation of Software, in Proc. of the IEEE Software Engineering Standards Symposium, September 1993.
J. Boegh: The SCOPE Evaluation Method, in 'Software Metrics for Product Assessment', eds. R. Bache and G. Bazzana, McGraw-Hill, 219-224, 1993. J. Boegh: Objekt Orienteret Programudvikling, Teknisk Forlag, 1991.
J. Boegh, O. Andersen, S. P. Petersen: Use of Microprocessors in Safety Critical Applications - Guidelines for the Nordic Factory Inspectorates, in 'Safety and Reliability of Programmable Electronic Systems', Elsevier Applied Science Publishers, 242 - 246, 1986.
Contact Details:
Principal Investigator: Joergen Boegh
EMail: jb@delta.dk
Telephone: +45 4286 7722
Fax: +45 4286 5898
Address: Velighedsveij 4, DK-2970 Horsholm, Denmark
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