Books Guide: Software Quality Assurance

Your software systems are the heart of your business–and they may be vulnerable. In Glitch, industry leader Jeff Papows, Ph.D., outlines the three converging forces that are leading to the proliferation of glitches. Papows explains why and how these glitches are affecting businesses, government agencies, and consumers and provides recommendations as to what we can do about them.

Agile methods are a collection of different techniques and practices that share the same values and basic principles. Agile Software Development Quality Assurance provides in-depth coverage of the most important concepts, issues, trends, and technologies in agile software. This Premier Reference Source presents the research and instruction used to develop and implement software quickly, in small iteration cycles, and in close cooperation with the customer in an adaptive way.

This little book sets out some fundamental principles of testing in the form of Test Axioms. The Axioms are context neutral so in principle, they are universal. The book provides a set of context-free questions for each Axiom that can help you to both define a test strategy and assess and improve your own or others' test practices.

This practical, hands-on guide captures, categorizes, and builds a process of best practices to avoid creating defects during the development process—rather than fixing them after extensive analysis. While there are various proprietary and competing standards for reducing software defects, these methods suffer from issues surrounding timeliness, effectiveness, or cost.

ISO 9001: 2000: Achieving Compliance and Continuous Improvement in Software Development Companies is one of the only books that offers advice about implementing ISO 9001: 2000 in the software industry.

The easy, complete guide to statistical methods for software project management and process improvement.

How to manage quality up, and risk down. This invaluable guide to project planning and strategic decision making for software developers presents practical and realistic planning techniques to increase chances of a project delivering to time and budget. Offering clear explanations and real-world experiences, the key components of technical management are laid out as templates and checklists to assist managers with their project development.

In this book, Bob Glass has assembled a fascinating collection of stories about computing companies, projects, and products that failed. While the stories are interesting in their own right, the importance of learning from these failures is underscored by the fact that the world economy has become increasingly dependent on computer technology.

Textbooks tell us how to define metrics, but there is little guidance about exactly how to start and what has proven most effective in actual use. This book helps bridge that gap by bringing together important and practical papers on applying software metrics. Each chapter addresses a significant question whose answer is essential to building an effective measurement program.

This book is truly a "how-to" guide for software quality assurance professionals. It addresses new concepts such as process assurance and the use of filters. The book also includes clearly defined and well-rounded discussions of software quality standards, software quality assurance reviews, basic concepts of measurements, and a process-improvement road map.

The ISO 9000 standard is becoming increasingly important in the software industry--many European firms now require it. This book is a "what-to-do" and "how-to-do-it" guide to applying the ISO 9000 standard to building quality software. The book outlines what the ISO 9000 standard is, how it is to be applied to software development, where it stands in the overall world of software quality approaches, and what has happened in specific applications of the standard.

Quality does matter to the software developer. The construction of a Quality Management System is one practical way to bring quality disciplines to software development activities. Those two points are central in this book. The book makes ISO 9001 and ISO 9000-3 software specifications accessible and relevant to software specialists while recognizing the very real deficiencies of these documents.

This book is a great reference for an organization that wishes to register as an ISO 9001 quality organization. It is a good interpretation of ISO 9001 for software development. This book is not recommended for the average software professional for general reading.

This handbook summarizes more than 50 of the major problems of building and maintaining software projects, and outlines the prevention/control "therapies" available. It considers in depth the software-related risks in the domains of methodologies, tools, organization structures, skills and specialization, client relations, and sociological issues.

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Based on the late Dr. Perry Gluckman's personal experience as a consultant implementing the theories of W. Edwards Deming, this book brings you into the lives of six people who put themselves on the front line of the battle for quality improvement. The stories tell experiences of people who work in America's companies, from top executives to line workers.

This book emphasizes the premise that, at its core, software quality is a technical problem that must be addressed by good technical people working with good methods and techniques. The book describes a menu of some five dozen quality-oriented techniques and then addresses how quality organizations and management can facilitate their use. Special features include good annotated references throughout the book and a helpful section of company case studies.