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		ESSI-SCOPE is an EU funded project that aims to raise awareness of quality issues in software products, and to introduce some of the work associated with product evaluation which assists in improving the quality of products.

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The conference was held on the 15-16th Spetember '97 and covered a wide and varied programme, with presentations addressing topical issues such as emerging standards, metrics, testing and inspections, software product evaluation and usability. Throughout all presentations two main themes emerged; the value of measurement and also the growing importance of a user-oriented approach to software development.

70 delegates representing 14 countries attended the conference. The feedback from delegates for both the conference and tutorial days was excellent.

	Many of the papers from the conference appear in a new book:
	Achieving Software Product Quality Erik van Veenendaal and Julie McMullan (eds.)

More and more organisations, in all sectors of the economy, are becoming increasingly dependent on software, either as an integral part of their "product" or to support their business process. The software industry is putting considerable effort in trying to improve the quality of their products. This book addresses a number of important topics in the area of software product quality, based on the results of European research and practical experiences.

"Achieving Software Product Quality" covers the latest developments in ISO product quality standards, the importance of measurement, usability design approaches, software evaluation and certification methods and techniques and a structured approach for software testing. In addition relatively new topics such as testing the year 2000 and Multimedia systems quality are presented. Together the papers, written by various experts in the field, present an overview on the state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice in the area of software product quality.

The book has been produced in the context of the ESSI-SCOPE project. The European project ESSI-SCOPE aims at raising the awareness on quality issues in software products, with a special focus on software product evaluation. Both editors are members of the ESSI-SCOPE project team.

Tutein Nolthenius, 's Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, 1997
http://www.utn.nl/boeken/essi.html
ISBN 90-72194-527