Inroads to Software Quality: "How To" Guide and Toolkit

By Alka Jarvis and Alka Shah-Jarvis

Helps software organizations build in quality cost-effectively, starting before products are developed. This book is a highly-readable, non-theoretical guide to software quality improvement. It... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0132384035
• ISBN13: 9780132384032
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.9" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

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Excellent book with lots of templates and easy to understand text. Authors have done a great job.

Inroads: A reality in software.

Book has lots of templates which are easy to use. The book is extremely practical and a "MUST" have for every software engineer.

New and practical view of software quality

Every time you buy a book that relates to quality you find the same ideas, interesting but how to carry them out? This book will help you to build a quality system that fits your organization. Good exaplantion about use of checklists, testing, and a new software quality paradigm.

Good insights on the New Paradigm. Detailed checklists and

This is a must book for those who continuously find the same defects from release to release. The New Paradigm gives the readers the concepts and implementation of "filters" that prevents defects from going further in the development cycle. This book is not about software testing or reviews but about Software Quality Assurance . It has overall concepts on the product assurance and process assurance activities that increases the robustness of a product. There are several books in the market on the subjects of inspections and testing. After reviewing several books, I found this is the only book that has taken the Deming principle of "defect containment" and shown the readers the effectiveness of the processes, if implemented correctly.