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How To Ensure Quality in Software Development

Using data and case studies from hundreds of software organizations, authors Capers Jones and Olivier Bonsignour show how integrated inspection, structural quality measurement, static analysis, and testing can achieve defect removal rates exceeding 95 percent. Jones is an industry expert on software metrics, and Bonsignour is responsible for product development at CAST, Inc., a leading vendor in the software analysis and measurement space.

"As projects grow larger, quality becomes progressively more important because, historically, the costs of finding and fixing bugs have been the largest known expense for large software applications," the authors said. "This is true of both new development as well as enhancement and maintenance."

Managers and stakeholders need to focus on quality issues at the start of planning and developing new applications, and when enhancing or maintaining existing ones. This includes both predicting and measuring quality levels associated with items such as software project schedules, staffing, development and maintenance costs.

In addition, the authors explore the emerging topic of "technical debt," or the cost of fixing problems in working software that, if left unfixed, will likely cause critical business disruption and extended costs for post-release defect repairs.

"The Economics of Software Quality is a landmark for three reasons. It is practical, it is data-driven, and it goes beyond the traditional treatments of quality to demonstrate how to manage structural quality-an important element of software quality for our business," said Thaddeus Arroyo, Chief Information Officer, AT&T Services, Inc., in the book's Foreword.

It is available in multiple eBook formats, including pdf, ePub, Nook and Kindle eBook. For additional information, visit the publisher site: www.informit.com/title/0132582201

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