Recently added articles from Software Quality Professional:
Overview
Dec 01, 2008; ... This issue has articles pertaining to four of the CSQE body of knowledge (BOK) areas-Software Quality Management, Project Management, Software Verification and Validation (V&V), and Software Configuration Management. The Resource Reviews cover two categories of the Certified Software Quality ...
From the Editor
Dec 01, 2008; ... Welcome to Software Quality Professional (SQP), volume 11, issue 1. The overview provides details about the articles in this issue. We have another article, "Application of the SPI-KM Approach to Support the Implementation of the MPS Model in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises in ...
Teaching Challenges: Testing and Debugging Skills for Novice Programmers
Dec 01, 2008; ... This article discusses some issues that many educators in computing disciplines encounter: teaching testing and debugging skills to novice programmers. The first part of the article addresses the issue of presenting debugging as part of a larger context of educating future professionals ...
Empirical Validation of Object-Oriented Metrics Using Discriminant Analysis for Object-Oriented Systems
Dec 01, 2008; ... Empirical validation of software metrics is important for ensuring their practical relevance in software organizations. It would be valuable to know the relationship between object-oriented metrics and fault proneness when severity of faults is taken into account. In this article, the authors ...
A Hybrid Approach for Overcoming Common IV&V Challenges
Dec 01, 2008; ... The world of independent verification and validation (IV&V) is one fraught with challenges and pitfalls. Chief among them is a set of cultural resistance factors from technology contractors that are present when a customer sponsors an IV&V effort on technical projects. Cultural ...