Process Quality Assurance for UML-Based Projects

Bhuvan Unhelkar

430 pages, parution le 26/11/2002

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Résumé

Software quality, by its very nature, is elusive! Add to that the ever-changing user requirements and the vagaries of software project management, and we end up with "quality" as a mere word on a distant horizon. This highly acclaimed work redresses this shortcoming by harnessing the capability of the industry-standard Unified Modeling Language (UML) within a process framework to help reduce complexity, clarify requirements, and add the sorely missing project management structure, resulting in software quality here and now!

Process Quality Assurance for UML-Based Projects focuses on the crucial process aspect of software quality. In an easy, entertaining way, the author outlines common-sense strategies for determining the applicability of UML to a project, creating and managing project teams, identifying the levels of quality standards, applying quality techniques, and estimating and testing in UML-based projects.

With This Book You Will be Able to:

Understand the elusive nature of software quality, the pressures on software quality, and the importance of processes and modeling in enhancing software quality
Divide modeling into three distinct but related spaces—problem, solution, and background space—and correlate the roles of business analyst, system designer, and system architect to these modeling spaces respectively
Understand quality discussions applicable to small, medium, and large projects
Appreciate the sociological aspect of quality management in software projects , including the value of transactional analysis (TA) in team formation and motivation
Relate to an iterative and incrementalprocess based on the concepts of process-components and related activities, tasks, roles, and deliverables
Move your organization forward in terms of CMM process maturity
Gain valuable and practical insights into process and project metrics, measurements, and estimations
Appreciate the strategic aspect of testing as it relates to quality assurance
Understand quality discussions applicable to new developments, integration, package implementation, outsourcing, data warehousing, and educational projects
Access extremely well-referenced work by leading practitioners, researchers, and academicians
Estimate and refine process and project metrics

At the end of each chapter, key points are encapsulated in FAQs and exercises for easy referencing and team training. An accompanying CD-ROM contains chapter details, diagrams in a course format, customizable templates, metrics for improving quality, a starting project plan based on process-components, and trial versions of relevant process tools.

Contents

I. Settting the scene for Software Quality Assurance
1. The Quality Game.
II. Organizing and enacting the Process for Quality
2. Quality Environment: Managing the Quality Function.
3. The Quality Process Architecture.
4. Enacting the Quality Software Process.
5. Estimates and Metrics for UML-based Projects.
III. Testing the product: Quality Control
6. Quality Control of Software Products.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Addison Wesley
Auteur(s)	Bhuvan Unhelkar
Parution	26/11/2002
Nb. de pages	430
Format	18,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	685g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780201758214
ISBN13	978-0-201-75821-4