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Software Development Activity Cycles: Collaborative Development, Continuous Testing and User Acceptance
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Software Development Activity Cycles: Collaborative Development, Continuous Testing and User Acceptance

by Robert F. Rose
July 2022
Beginner to intermediate
301 pages
4h 55m
English
Apress
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R. F. RoseSoftware Development Activity Cycleshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8239-7_9

9. Engineering Software Quality

Robert Rose1  
(1)
Alexandria, VA, USA
 

Software Quality Defined

In the 1970s, when I first began designing and developing systems, the tribal knowledge at that time was that an information system should meet the following four criteria:
  1. 1.

    Meets the needs of the user

     
  2. 2.

    Be robust

     
  3. 3.

    Be easy to use

     
  4. 4.

    Be easy to maintain

     

Of course, those were the bad old days of punched cards, card sorters, mainframe computers, and IBM’s CICS (Customer Information Control System) as the most used (and still used) customer-facing application server. But the more ...

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