In conjuction with The 9th International Conference on Quality Software QSIC 2009
Jeju, Korea, August 24-25, 2009

Background

Data has become in one of the most important assets for organizations. Indeed, organizations have realized about this situation and nowadays, more and more companies which work intensively with data, have demonstrated a growing interest in assessing and improving the levels of data quality of their data resources. They know that they can get some valuable profits in order to achieve a better organizational performance.

Among these organizations are those whose main aim is to develop software products. As known, in a software development project a lot of data is generated and used through the different phase of the development. To have the sound data at the right time can be of vital importance to make decisions about the development in order to avoid errors and mistakes. These ones can cause the breaking up of the budget or of the agenda. In addition, with the introduction of the new business models, like Global Software Development into the current panorama, the necessary efforts have become harder since data coming from different sources must be coordinated, integrated and communicated. By getting data with adequate levels of quality, a development team can assure better software products.