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Software Quality

State of the Art in Management, Testing, and Tools

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Editors:
  1. Martin Wieczorek

    1. SQS Software Quality Systems AG, Köln, Germany

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  2. Dirk Meyerhoff

    1. SQS Software Quality Systems AG, Köln, Germany

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Software Quality Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    3. Process Oriented Software Quality Management

      1. A Practical Approach to Continuous Improvement in Software Engineering
        • Andreas Birk, Dieter Rombach
        Pages 34-45
      2. Taking the Temperature on Danish Software Quality
        • Jan Pries-Heje, Anne Mette Jonassen Hass, Jørn Johansen
        Pages 46-60
      3. Test process assessments and improvement
        • Detlef Vohwinkel
        Pages 61-72

    5. Cost Benefit Models for Quality Assurance

      1. A Cost-Benefit Model for Software Testing
        • Rudolf Göldner
        Pages 126-134
      2. An Example Cost/Benefit Analysis for Quality Management Systems (QMS)
        • Gregor Jahnke
        Pages 135-145

  3. Certification and Testing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. Testing Functional and Non-Functional Requirements

      1. Scalable Acceptance Testing
        • Paul Keese
        Pages 149-159
      2. Usability Testing — The DATech Standard
        • Wolfgang Dzida, Regine Freitag
        Pages 160-177

    3. Testing Web and E-Business Applications

      1. Ensuring the quality of Web Sites and E-commerce applications
        • Gualtiero Bazzana
        Pages 178-191
      2. Pair Programming and Testing in a Medical Web Project
        • Michael Timpe
        Pages 192-199
      3. Testing Web-Based Home Banking Applications
        • Dirk Meyerhoff, Dirk Huberty
        Pages 200-208

    4. Certification and Testing of Embedded and Safety-Critical Systems

      1. European Standards in the Field of Railway Signalling and their Influence on Software Testing Methods
        • Helmut Uebel, André Fitzke, Joachim Warlitz
        Pages 209-224
      2. Requirements for the Certification of Safety Critical Railway Systems
        • Tomislav Lovrić
        Pages 225-240
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1. 1 The Pressure on Information Technology (IT) "In today's environment, the ability to react quickly to change by reducing the devel­ opment life cycle in order to be first to market will give a company an important com­ petitive edge. " -James Martin The market conditions of the 21 st century put business under continual pressure. The most successful companies are those who are able to reduce their time to market, to launch initiatives before their competitors, to respond very rapidly to opportunities in the marketplace or to change direction in response to a move by the competition or a change in circumstances. All of these business initiatives rely on support from Infor­ mation Technology (IT). For a business to launch a new product in three months time, the supporting IT processes must be available and working in that three month time frame. In this fast moving environment, late IT delivery is not acceptable and may pose a major risk to the business. The marketplace of 21 st century business measures timescales in months, whereas in the past, timescales of two to three years were more typical. Internet related and e­ business projects frequently require even tighter timescales, measured in days rather than months. This need for speed puts tremendous pressure on IT departments. Pressure does not just come from the need for speed. There is also an ever-increasing rate of change within business.

Editors and Affiliations

  • SQS Software Quality Systems AG, Köln, Germany

    Martin Wieczorek, Dirk Meyerhoff

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Software Quality

  • Book Subtitle: State of the Art in Management, Testing, and Tools

  • Editors: Martin Wieczorek, Dirk Meyerhoff

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56529-8

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-41441-4Published: 09 February 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-56529-8Published: 28 June 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 288

  • Number of Illustrations: 84 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Programming Techniques, Software Engineering, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)

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