How To Ensure Quality in Software Development
NEW YORK –(Business Wire)–
The Economics of Software Quality, new from Addison-Wesley
Professional, focuses on the business value inherent in prioritizing
quality in the software development process. It aims to quantify the
factors that influence software quality and to enable readers to predict
and measure them.
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 exsting 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 (News – Alert)
Services, Inc., in the book’s Foreword.
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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
About Pearson
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home to such respected brands as Addison-Wesley Professional, Cisco (News – Alert)
Press, Exam Cram, IBM Press, Prentice Hall Professional, Que, and Sams
Publishing, which have as their online publishing arm, InformIT (www.informit.com)
-The Trusted Technology Learning Source (News – Alert). In addition, Berkeley-based
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the publishing partner for Adobe (News – Alert) Press, Apple Certified, and others,
publishes best-selling books for creative design professionals.
Pearson’s other primary businesses include the Financial Times (News – Alert) Group and
the Penguin Group.
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