1. European and Chinese Cooperation on Grid Is Quality Assurance a field for cooperation for Grids? ENG Andrea Manieri

2. EchoGRID /Qalipso – OGF 23Barcelona – 2° June 2008 2 Industrial Cooperation Linking EU and Chinese Industrial Stackeholders Bridging Research and Industries from both Countries Ensuring Industrial position and needs in the Roadmap Disseminating Roadmap to EU/Chinese Industries

3. EchoGRID /Qalipso – OGF 23Barcelona – 2° June 2008 3 Drivers and Barriers in Europe DRIVERS Market Drivers Economic Drivers Need for a reliable system Availability of New Technology Better Utilization of IT Infrastructures BARRIERS Organizational and Cultural Business Legal Standardisation Security

4. EchoGRID /Qalipso – OGF 23Barcelona – 2° June 2008 4 Drivers and Barriers in China DRIVERS Move Grid from complex scientific computing to commercial applications. Focus on main sectors: Finance, Insurance, Real Estate, Manufacturing, Professional Business services and Entertaiment industry Need of complete Grid solutions. Ability of virtualization. New applications BARRIERS Lack of standards Grid is a complex system and needs many skilful engineers to maintain Enterprises treat new technology with less enthusiasm than they used to do before

5. EchoGRID /Qalipso – OGF 23Barcelona – 2° June 2008 5 5 Quality Assurance state of the art International Quality Assurance Standards ISO and CMMi standards (Capability Maturity Model integration) Most used Software Metrics Legacy Languages Object-Oriented Lg. Testing methodologies Test Planning Methods Unit, Component and Integration testing

6. EchoGRID /Qalipso – OGF 23Barcelona – 2° June 2008 6 Are there common challenges? User perception of grid quality including security and privacy issues Inner quality of grid software Often produced as part of research/OSS initiatives

7. EchoGRID /Qalipso – OGF 23Barcelona – 2° June 2008 7 7 Surveying QA approaches Quality For Grid Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) Guidelines for QoS in Grid Infrastructures Middleware deployment procedures Vega Grid Operation System (GOS) Requirements for a Grid Infrastructure Astronomical Virtual Lab (AVLAB) Development and Testing approaches BRIDGE Testing activities and development model

8. EchoGRID /Qalipso – OGF 23Barcelona – 2° June 2008 8 8 Surveying QA approaches Grid For Quality E-Infrastructure for Testing, Integration and Configuration of Software (ETICS) Grid Based B&T tool to automate building and testing activities Grid-QCM: a quality assurance model to automatically certify software quality EUchinaGRID Usage of mature Grid middleware to assure the quality of the project ETSI – TG Grid Developing interoperability test framework

9. EchoGRID /Qalipso – OGF 23Barcelona – 2° June 2008 9 Challenges and cooperation perspectives Tools and frameworks to easily use QA guidelines Common QA metrics (world-wide accepted) to certify the quality of grid software

10. EchoGRID /Qalipso – OGF 23Barcelona – 2° June 2008 10 Thanks for your attention