How To Ensure Quality in Software Development
05 August 2011 - 6:43PM
Business Wire
The Economics of Software Quality, new from Addison-Wesley
Professional, focuses on the business value inherent in
prioritizing quality in the software development process. It aims
to quantify the factors that influence software quality and to
enable readers to predict and measure them.
Using data and case studies from hundreds of software
organizations, authors Capers Jones and Olivier Bonsignour show how
integrated inspection, structural quality measurement, static
analysis, and testing can achieve defect removal rates exceeding 95
percent. Jones is an industry expert on software metrics, and
Bonsignour is responsible for product development at CAST, Inc., a
leading vendor in the software analysis and measurement space.
“As projects grow larger, quality becomes progressively more
important because, historically, the costs of finding and fixing
bugs have been the largest known expense for large software
applications,” the authors said. “This is true of both new
development as well as enhancement and maintenance.”
Managers and stakeholders need to focus on quality issues at the
start of planning and developing new applications, and when
enhancing or maintaining existing ones. This includes both
predicting and measuring quality levels associated with items such
as software project schedules, staffing, development and
maintenance costs.
In addition, the authors explore the emerging topic of
“technical debt,” or the cost of fixing problems in working
software that, if left unfixed, will likely cause critical business
disruption and extended costs for post-release defect repairs.
“The Economics of Software Quality is a landmark for three
reasons. It is practical, it is data-driven, and it goes beyond the
traditional treatments of quality to demonstrate how to manage
structural quality—an important element of software quality for our
business,” said Thaddeus Arroyo, Chief Information Officer,
AT&T Services, Inc., in the book’s Foreword.
It is available in multiple eBook formats, including pdf, ePub,
Nook and Kindle eBook. For additional information, visit the
publisher site: www.informit.com/title/0132582201
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