Tracy Hall is a
principal lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the University of
Hertfordshire. She heads the Centre for Empirical Software Process Research (CESPR),
previously she headed the Centre for Systems and Software Engineering (CSSE) at South Bank
University. For the past six years she has been active in the area of software quality,
measurement and software process improvement. She has many publications in this area.
All of the research that Tracy undertakes is in direct
collaboration with companies in the software industry. To date she has collaborated with
over 25 companies.
Over the last four years she has been a programme committee member of the British Computer
Society's annual Quality Management conference.
She is also an active member of the UK think tank: the
Centre for Software Reliability Council. She is the co-editor of a book on professionalism
of software practitioners, 'The Responsible Software Engineer', Springer, 1997 and has
chaired highly successful international conference in that area. |
