Software Excellence: A Total Quality Management Guide

By Shigeichi Moriguchi

Eliminate bugs by building in high quality at the start of your software development cycle. Successful practitioners of TQM have long known that building in quality assurance at the earliest stages saves time and money - proving that a little preventive maintenance goes a long way. Embracing this concept, software developers today are searching for ways to implement quality at upstream processes. They now use the testing stage as a final check on quality, rather than the main determinant of quality. Persistence in identifying software problems means not relying solely on inspections and audits, but recognizing the importance of achieving designs that effectively prevent such problems from occurring in the first place. Software Excellence is the first book to thoroughly apply the arsenal of Japanese-style quality control methods to software development. Shigeichi Moriguchi, a leader in the QC movement, leads you on a process journey in search of bug-free software. This book is an easy-to-understand practical,guide that describes the application of quality methodologies to the software development process. It gives you the principles of software quality, as well as helpful case examples of specific applications.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563270501
• ISBN13: 9781563270505
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Productivity Press
• Length: 617 Pages
• Weight: 3.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 1.3" x 9.0"