Assessing Product Quality
Quality is a key factor in determining a product's maturity level. When assessed too late in a project life cycle, lack of quality can have disastrous consequences. Quality is inversely related to risk: The higher the quality level of a product, the lower the risk that it will fail in use, causing production outages and raising costs. Good IT organizations pay attention to risk factors and seek to reduce their overall risk exposure.
Software quality is a key to product maturity.
Because of the opaque nature of commercial software companies it is very difficult to determine the quality level of their products. By opaque, I refer to the fact that commercial software companies shield their development teams. They do not ...
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