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Engineering
Software Quality
Management
QualityPlanning 2. QA reviews
1. QA Develops
and/or reviews process for
configuration conformance to
management QMshouldhave organizational
plans, standards ...
QA
someindependence
fromPM
policy
QualityControl 3. QA develops
and/or reviews
5. QA reviews, 4. QA reviews, provision for
inspects & tests inspects & tests QA activities
5. Deliver & main-
tain the product 4. Design and build 3. Plan
Software
Adapted from Engineering Software
Software Engineering: An Object-Oriented Perspective by Eric Quality
J. Braude Management
(Wiley 2001), with permission. Slide 9
Quality assurance and
standards
Standards are the key to effective quality
management
They may be international, national,
organizational or project standards
Product standards define characteristics
that all components should exhibit e.g. a
common programming style
Process standards define how the software
process should be enacted
Software Engineering Software Quality Management Slide 12
Importance of
standards
instantiated as
documents
Organization Organiza tion
quality manual quality process
Supports
No Yes
Improve Quality Standar dize
process OK process
Product introduction
Product plans
Process descriptions
Quality goals
Risks and risk management
Quality plans should be short, succinct
documents
If they are too long, no-one will read
them
Software Engineering Software Quality Management Slide 25
IEEE 730-1989 Software Quality Assurance
Plans
Table of Contents
7. Testing
process)
Quality reviews (product and standards)
Be portable
Reliability
Program size in lines
of code
Portability
Number of error
messages
Usability
number of failures)
Help assess efficiency, effectiveness, availability and
reliability
Static metrics have an indirect relationship with quality
attributes
Collected from system representation (lines of code)
maintainability