Software Quality Professional back issues from June 2003:
Managing Open Source Projects
Jun 01, 2003; ... Managing Open Source Projects Jan Sandred. 2001. New York: Wiley Computer Publishing. 180 pages. ISBN 0-471-40396-2 (CSQE Body of Knowledge areas: Projeet Management) Your mission is to develop software with some very specific capabilities and you must do it within a ...
Executable UML: A Foundation for Model Driven Architecture
Jun 01, 2003; ... Executable UML: A Foundation for Model Driven Architecture Stephen J. Mellor and Marc J. Balcer. 2002. Boston: Addison-Wesley. 359 pages. ISBN 0-201-74804-5. (CSQE Body of Knowledge areas: Software Engineering Processes and Software Verification and Validation) Executable ...
Managing High-Intensity Internet Projects
Jun 01, 2003; ... Managing High-Intensity Internet Projects Edward Yourdon. 2002. Upper Saddle River, N.J. Prentice Hall. 218 pages. ISBN 0-13-062110-2. (CSQE Body of Knowledge areas: Software Quality Management, Program and Project Management) When I selected this book to read, I had one ...
Component-Based Development: Principles and Planning for Business Systems
Jun 01, 2003; ... Component-Based Development: Principles and Planning for Business Systems Katherine Whitchead. 2002. Boston: Addison-Wesley. 200 pages. ISBN 0-201-67528-5. (CSQE Body of Knowledge area: Software Engineering processes) Component-Based Development is an introduction to the ...
From the Resource Reviews Editor
Jun 01, 2003; ... From the Resource Reviews Editor: This will be my last collection of resource reviews. I am turning over the reins to Milt Boyd. You've seen his reviews for years, and I'm sure he will continue to bring a variety of resource reviews to SQP readers. If you would like to become a resource ...
Building a Project-Driven Enterprise: How to Slash Waste and Boost Profits Through Lean Project Management
Jun 01, 2003; ... Building a Project-Driven Enterprise: How to Slash Waste and Boost Profits Through Lean Project Management Ronald Mascitelli. 2002. Northridge, Calif.: Technology Perspectives. 368 pages. ISBN 0-9662697-1-3. (CSQE Body of Knowledge areas: Program and Project ...
Understanding Open Source Software Development
Jun 01, 2003; ... Understanding Open Source Software Development Joseph Feller and Brian Fitzgerald. 2002. Great Britain: Addison-Wesley. 220 pages. ISBN 0-201-73496-6. (CSQE Body of Knowledge areas: Software Engineering Processes) The authors state that they wrote this book because open ...
The UML Profile for Framework Architectures
Jun 01, 2003; ... The UML Profile for Framework Architectures Marcus Fontoura, Wolfgang Pree, and Bernhard Rumple. 2002. Boston: Addison-Wesley. 228 pages. ISBN 0-201-67518-8. (CSQE Body of Knowledge areas: Specifications and Models; Software Engineering Processes; Life Cycles; Analysis, Design, ...
Overview
Jun 01, 2003; ... This issue begins with "The Living Software Development Process" by Michael Gnatz, Frank Marschall, Gerhard Popp, Andreas Rausch, and Wolfgang Schwerin. Given the extremely dynamic environment in which so much modern software development occurs, the development processes themselves must be ...
Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
Jun 01, 2003; ... Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering Robert L. Glass. 2003. Boston: Addison-Wesley. 195 pages. ISBN 0-321-11742-5. (CSQE) Body of Knowledge areas: Software Engineering Processes, Software Quality Processes) The word "fallacies" in Facts and Fallacies of Software ...
The living software development process
Jun 01, 2003; ... Today's software development projects are confronted with a frequently changing environment like rapidly altering business domains and processes, a fast technology evolution, and a variety of evolving methods and development processes. Therefore, highly flexible and adaptable software ...
Six Sigma Software Development
Jun 01, 2003; ... Six Sigma Software Development Christine B. Tayntor. 2003. Boca Raton: Auerbach Publications. 322 pages. ISBN 0-8493-41193-4. (CSQE Body of Knowledge areas: Software Quality Management and Software Engineering Processes) These days it is rare to find a quality management ...
The Adaptive Enterprise, IT Infrastructure Strategies to Manage Change and Enable Growth
Jun 01, 2003; ... The Adaptive Enterprise, IT Infrastructure Strategies to Manage Change and Enable Growth Bruce Robertson and Valentin Sribar. 2001. Boston: Addison-Wesley. 290 pages. ISBN 0-201-76736-8. (CSQE Body of Knowledge area: Software Engineering Processes) To quote, "The ...
Writing Better Requirements
Jun 01, 2003; ... Writing Better Requirements Ian F. Alexander and Richard Stevens. 2002. London: Addison-Wesley. 154 pages. ISBN 0-321-13163-0. (CSQE Body of Knowledge areas: Software Quality Management, Software Engineering Processes) I have been searching for years for a good book on ...
From the editor
Jun 01, 2003; ... Multiple-choice question: The best measure of software quality is: a) satisfaction of specified requirements b) adherence to defined processes c) defect injection rate d) defect removal efficiency e) failure intensity of system in use What about ...
Software quality metrics - from theory to implementation
Jun 01, 2003; ... In the area of software quality assurance, as in other industries, great importance is attached to quality measurement. The current implementation of quality metrics for the software development process and for maintenance is usually carried out according to the general conception of a control ...
The People Capability Maturity Model, Guidelines for Improving the Workforce
Jun 01, 2003; ... The People Capability Maturity Model, Guidelines for Improving the Workforce Bill Curtis, William E. Hefley, and Sally A. Miller. 2002. Boston: Addison-Wesley. 587 pages. ISBN 0201604450. (CSQE Body of Knowledge areas: General Knowledge, Conduct, and Ethics) This book ...
Designing a software quality assurance course: An effective framework for teaching
Jun 01, 2003; ... Designing and teaching a course like software quality assurance (SQA) always poses enormous challenges. Most of the students taking the SQA course lack practical exposure to the quality issues addressed by the software industries, and many of the SQA topics are theoretical in nature. The ...