Jo Ann Lane
Instructor, Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
San Diego State University

Office: GMCS 564
Office Hours: MW 1600-1645 pm or by appointment
Email: jalane@cs.sdsu.edu

Fall 2007 Software Engineering Courses

CS 532 Software Engineering Syllabus

CS 636 Management of Software Development Syllabus

 

Ms. Jo Ann Lane is currently an instructor at San Diego State University, teaching Software Engineering,Software Measurement, Software Test, and Management of Software Development courses. Prior to joining the SDSU Computer Science faculty, Ms. Lane was a key technical member of Science Applications International Corporation’s (SAIC) Software and Systems Integration Group, as well as chairperson of the SAIC corporate Software Metrics Working Group.

Her areas of expertise include software project management, software process definition and implementation, and metrics collection and analysis. She has over 30 years of software engineering and development experience on a variety of projects that include management information, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) integration, web applications, distributed processing, health care/telemedicine applications, command, control, communications, and intelligence (C3I) systems, real-time signal processing, and aircraft simulation programs.

Ms. Lane earned her MS degree in Computer Science from San Diego State University and is currently working on her PhD at USC in System Architecting and Engineering with an emphasis on software-intensive systems.

Recent Publications and Conference Presentations

• Lane, Jo Ann and Ricardo Valerdi, Synthesizing SoS Concepts for Use in Cost Estimation, IEEE 2005 Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 2005.
• Factors Influencing System-of-Systems Architecting and Integration Costs, Conference on System Engineering Research, March 2005.
• Constructive Cost Model for System-of-System Integration, International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, Los Angeles, California, August 2004.
• Valerdi, Ricardo and Jo Ann Lane, Steps Toward Model Unification for Software, Systems Engineering, and Systems of Systems, 19th International Forum on COCOMO and Software Cost Modeling, October 2004.
• Boehm, Barry, Ricardo Valerdi, Jo Ann Lane, and A. Winsor Brown, COCOMO Suite Methodology and Evolution, CrossTalk, April, 2005.
• Estimating System-of-System Architecture Definition and Integration Effort, Practical Software Measurement Conference, Keystone, Colorado, July 2004.
• Software Sizing: Experiences in the Classroom, 18th International Forum on COCOMO and Software Cost Modeling, October 2003.
• Distributed Software Development: Pulling Together the Right Technical Resources to Do the Job, Software Technology Conference, Hill Air Force Base, May 2000.
• Quantitative Assessment of Rapid System Development Using COTS Integration, Software Technology Conference, Hill Air Force Base, May 1999.
• SAIC Experiences in Setting and Achieving Measurement Goals, Software Technology Conference, Hill Air Force Base, April 1998.
• Integrating Measurement with Improvement: An Action-Oriented Approach, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, May 1997.
• Metrics Focus Brings About Improvement in Health Care Software Development, SEI SEPG Conference, March 1996.

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