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and IEEE TSE. In fact, ICSE 2014 was
held in Hyderabad and POPL 2015 was
held in Mumbai under the General
Chairship of Pankaj Jalote and Sriram
Rajamani, respectively.
India also has its flagship annual
conference called Innovations in
Software Engineering (ISEC), which
provides a platform for sharing experi-
ences of various research groups.

Indian Industry’s Leadership in the Software Process

Up until the 1990s, the world of
software was filled with stories of
delayed and poor-quality software
projects. For improving this sce-
nario, a five-level Capability Maturity
Model (CMM)b was developed by the
Software Engineering Institute (SEI).
CMM is a framework and model
for evaluating and improving the
software development process in an
organization in a staged manner,
and has been adopted by companies
b https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Capability_Maturity_Model
across the world. Indian software
companies took a lead in deploying
this model for improving software
quality and productivity. In the early
stages of model deployment, a large
percentage of the companies at high
maturity levels (CMM level 5) were
from India—a situation that contin-
ues even today. Companies across
the world, and countries desirous
of developing their software sector,
wanted to learn from the Indian expe-
rience in employing rigorous software
processes using quantitative tech-
The Bagmane Tech Park in Bengaluru, India, is
a software technology office space and home to
some of the biggest tech corporations worldwide.