Book description
Poor quality continues to bedevil large-scale development projects, but few software leaders and practitioners know how to measure quality, select quality best practices, or cost-justify their usage. In The Economics of Software Quality, leading software quality experts Capers Jones and Jitendra Subramanyam show how to systematically measure the economic impact of quality and how to use this information to deliver far more business value.
Using empirical data from hundreds of software organizations, Jones and Subramanyam show how integrated inspection, static analysis, and testing can achieve defect removal rates exceeding 95 percent. They offer innovative guidance for predicting and measuring defects and quality; choosing defect prevention, pre-test defect removal, and testing methods; and optimizing post-release defect reporting and repair.
This book will help you
Prove that improved software quality translates into strongly positive ROI and greatly reduced TCO
Drive better results from current investments in debugging and prevention
Use quality techniques to stay on schedule and on budget
Avoid “hazardous” metrics that lead to poor decisions
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Praise for The Economics of Software Quality
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Chapter 1. Defining Software Quality and Economic Value
- Chapter 2. Estimating and Measuring Software Quality
- Chapter 3. Software Defect Prevention
- Chapter 4. Pretest Defect Removal
- Chapter 5. Software Testing
- Chapter 6. Post-Release Defect Removal
- Chapter 7. Analyzing the Economics of Software Quality
- References and Readings
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Economics of Software Quality
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2011
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: 9780132564731
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