Value proposition

Developing international standards to automate the measurement of software size, quality, and technical debt.

The Consortium for Information & Software QualityTM (CISQTM) was co-founded by OMG and the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in 2010. The organization collaborates with the world's top software engineering experts to create standards for automating the measurement of software size and structural quality from the source code. CISQ standards enable organizations developing or acquiring software-intensive systems to measure the operational risk software poses to the business and estimate the cost of ownership.

Through the work of CISQ, industry-supported standards have been developed to measure software size, structural quality, and technical debt from source code.


These standards are implemented in tools used by organizations across private industry, government entities, not-for-profits, and academia to advance software and information quality when contracting for, developing, testing, accepting, securing, and deploying enterprise IT and embedded systems.

CISQ collaborates with the world's top software engineering experts to provide an open-source, freely available set of software coding standards, broken into four characteristics: Reliability, Security, Performance Efficiency, and Maintainability. CISQ software standards are free and available for anyone to use.

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