Code Complete, 2nd Edition

Chapter 20. The Software-Quality Landscape

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Contents

• Characteristics of Software Quality

• Techniques for Improving Software Quality

• Relative Effectiveness of Quality Techniques

• When to Do Quality Assurance

• The General Principle of Software Quality

Related Topics

• Collaborative construction: Chapter 21

• Developer testing: Chapter 22

• Debugging: Chapter 23

• Prerequisites to construction: Chapter 3 and Chapter 4

• Do prerequisites apply to modern software projects?: in Importance of Prerequisites

This chapter surveys software-quality techniques from a construction point of view. The entire book is about improving software quality, of course, but this chapter focuses on quality and quality assurance per se. It focuses more on big-picture issues than it does ...