Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering

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Addison-Wesley, 1995 - Computers - 344 pages
This work provides the necessary tools and ideas for measuring and improving the quality of an entire software development process from high-level to low-level design, and all phases of testing for reliability. It integrates metrics with models and quality improvement strategies, and action plans with actual project experiences to improve the entire software development series. Real-world problem-solving studies are employed.

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Contents

What Is Software Quality?
1
Software Development Process Models
13
Fundamentals in Measurement Theory
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Stephen H. Kan is Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) and a technical manager in programming for IBM in Rochester, Minnesota. As process manager of the quality management process in product development for IBM's eServer iSeries software development, his responsibilities include quality goal setting, supplier quality requirements, quality plans, in-process metrics, field quality status, and quality and project assessments. Dr. Kan has been a faculty member of the Master of Science in Software Engineering program at the University of Minnesota since 1998. He is certified by the American Society for Quality as a Quality Engineer, a Reliability Engineer, and a Quality Manager, and by the Project Management Institute as a Project Management Professional. 0201633396AB08212002

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