An overview of the “1981 ACM SIGMETRICS Workshop/Symposium on Measurement and Evaluation of Software Quality”

The 1981 ACM SIGMETRICS Workshop/Symposium on Measurement and Evaluation of Software Quality focused on the broad subject of software quality. It addressed some of the major topics covered by the term “software quality,” including the software life cycle, software quality requirements, software configuration management, software quality assurance metrics, and software reliability measurement. Over 220 practitioners and researchers from industry, government, and universities gathered together at the University of Maryland Conference Center in College Park on March 25-27 to participate in two tutorials and eight workship sessions. Workship participants represented a wide range of interests from the purely qualitative to the purely quantitative.