Code Analysis: New Standards for Automation [CISQ]

Bill Curtis discusses SOFTWARE QUALITY in relation to the CISQ measures, standards, and certification.

IT organizations can use CISQ software quality standards to detect critical violations of good architectural and coding practice in software. Measure your software against CISQ standards at every release, e.g., measure code compliance to secure architectures, and put CISQ measures into contracts with outside developers or software vendors.
CISQ Automated Function Points (AFP) is a standard measure of software size used in software quality measurement.
The CISQ Quality Characteristic Measures for Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Security and Maintainability identify software flaws based on well-established software engineering rules.
CISQ nonfunctional requirements (Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Security and Maintainability) are at the core of CISQ code quality standards and recommendations. These measures are consistent with ISO/IEC 25010. Eighty-six software engineering rules are covered by the CISQ Quality Characteristics Measures to ensure reliable, secure, efficient and easy to maintain software. CISQ quality measures are designed to be automated to identify flaws and vulnerabilities and produce a score based on a ratio of violations to software size.