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Author

Shull, Forrest

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering

Volume

30

Issue

6

fYear

2013

fDate

Nov.-Dec. 2013

Firstpage

4

Lastpage

8

Abstract

IEEE Software editor-in-chief Forrest Shull discusses the software sustainability and his interview with Girish Seshagiri, the CEO of AIS, an organization that offers "firm fixed-price contracting with performance guarantees, including a lifetime warranty on software defects" in government contracts. In addition, he discusses the best paper award at the 21st Annual IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference and the best research paper award at the Agile Conference. The first Web extra at http://youtu.be/L1XN0R4koRk is an audio interview highlighting IEEE Software editor in chief Forrest Shull\´s discussion with Girish Seshagiri, the CEO of AIS, about the organization\´s philosophy of offering "firm fixed-price contracting with performance guarantees, including a lifetime warranty on software defects" in government contracts. The second Web extra at http://youtu.be/iFsZlrhSM9E is the complete audio interview in which IEEE Software editor in chief Forrest Shull\´s speaks with Girish Seshagiri, the CEO of AIS, about the organization\´s philosophy of offering "firm fixed-price contracting with performance guarantees, including a lifetime warranty on software defects" in government contracts.

Keywords

Girish Seshagiri; agile; ais; best paper ieee software; defects; government contracts; practical; practice; requirements engineering; research; software; software development; software engineering; software quality; sustainability;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MS.2013.119

Filename

6648577