Software Quality Assurance: Get it right then Keep it right

By David B Black

Software Quality stinks. People who use software know it. People who build software know it. Everyone involved goes through a wide variety of charades to make it seem as though they are professionals who are in command -- they know how to build good software that, you know, actually works -- except that, in the vast majority of cases, they don't know how to do it! The most widely used method of quality assurance in the industry is the original one: hope you get lucky, and if you don't, hope it's not too bad.The current plethora of methods don't need tweaking; they need to be thrown out. We need to go to the conceptual roots of quality, and re-think it, from the bottom up.When we do, we find good news. There are methods for achieving software quality that are proven and have been in use for decades, but have somehow never been recognized, systematized and adopted as mainstream practice. These methods require less work and produce vastly better results than all the methods in widespread use today. Less work, better results .... hmmmm .... what's wrong with this picture?What's wrong is that software is so abstruse, so challenging and at the same time so resistant to method changes. But there's a real carrot here. Software quality really can be better.The purpose of this book is to explain the methods that real people have used and use today to achieve high quality software with minimal effort. Starting from a diagnosis of current quality methods in software, the book exposes the conceptual flaws, and then lays out both the conceptual foundation and the practical approaches to achieving software quality.If you have the luxury of endless resources and time to complete your software projects, by all means continue with your current favorite methods.But if like most of us you don't have enough time or money and really want your stuff to work, you may want to consider the methods described in this book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517352711
• ISBN13: 9781517352714
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"