Software Quality Assurance and Management - (Software Engineering)

Author: Zhu Shaomin
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Quality is the foundation for enterprises to remain invincible in fierce market competition. So, how can software companies establish a modern quality management system? How can software quality be guaranteed throughout the entire software development process? This book provides the correct and systematic answers. The book consists of 17 chapters. Chapters 1–10 comprehensively elaborate on the concepts of quality and software quality, the ideas and content of software quality engineering systems, as well as the methods and techniques of software quality control and management, including software quality standards, configuration management, quality measurement, and reliability assessment. Chapters 11–17 focus on practical software quality work, deeply exploring the software quality activities in each stage of the software development process, such as requirements analysis, software design, programming and testing, software release and maintenance. These chapters cover topics like the organization and training of quality personnel, quality planning, the effective application of design patterns, and the best practices for programming. The book is rich in content, covering all levels of software quality work, emphasizing quality culture and philosophy, and introducing the most valuable and representative quality systems in the field of quality management, including CMM, TQM, Six Sigma, and Zero Defect Management. These ideas and methods are integrated and applied throughout the entire software development process to ensure quality assurance and management activities. This book can serve as a textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate students studying software engineering in universities and colleges, as well as a reference for professionals engaged in software engineering research and application. The cover of this book is labeled with a Tsinghua University Press anti-counterfeiting tag. Products without the tag are not authorized for sale.