2009 Winter Project Week Compiler Warnings:Slicer3 Graffiti
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Key Investigators
- Bill Lorensen (His Basement)
Objective
The book, The Tipping Point, analyses trends and how they take hold. As Slicer3 grows and the number of contributors increases, there needs to be tighter controls on the quality of the system. The larger the code base, number of platforms and developers, the more need there is for attention to quality.
In the Tipping Point, a chapter on increasing crime in New York City in the 1990's describes how the trend was reversed. The city concentrated areas like cleaning graffiti from subway cars. The author claims that this and other seemingly trivial goals may have led to a reversal of the crime trend.
This project hypothesizes that compilation warnings are the graffiti of software quality. A lack of attention to this seemingly trivial goal shows a lack of attention to the quality of software. This project will
Approach, Plan
This project will use the DMAIC methodology of the Six Sigma management process to "Define", "Measure", "Analyze", "Improve" and "Control" compiler warnings in Slicer3.
Progress
