Software Quality Professional back issues from September 2005:
Quality in an Agile World
Sep 01, 2005; ... Quality is an inherent aspect of true agile software development. The majority of agilists take a test-driven approach to development where they write a unit test before they write the domain code to fulfill that unit test, with the end result being that they have a regression unit test suite at ...
Agile Documentation-A Pattern Guide to Producing Lightweight Documents for Software Projects
Sep 01, 2005; ... Agile Documentation-A Pattern Guide to Producing Lightweight Documents for Software Projects Andreas Rüping. 2003. John Wiley and Sons (http://www.wiley.com). 226 pages. ISBN 0-470-85617-3 GSQE Body of Knowledge areas: Software Quality Management, systems documentation My company ...
User Stories Applied-For Agile Software Development
Sep 01, 2005; ... User Stories Applied-For Agile Software Development Mike Cohn. 2004. Addison-Wesley (http://www.awprofessional.com). 268 pages. ISBN 0-321-20568-5 CSQE Body of Knowledge areas: Software Engineering Processes The traditional waterfall model of the software engineering life cycle ...
Designing Software Product Lines with UML ? From Use Cases to Pattern-Based Software Architectures
Sep 01, 2005; ... Designing Software Product Lines with UML ? From Use Cases to Pattern-Based Software Architectures Hassan Gomaa. 2005. Addison-Wesley (http://www.awprofessional.com). 701 pages. ISBN 0-201-77595-6 CSQE Body of Knowledge areas: Software Engineering Processes With 701 pages, Hassan ...
From the Editor
Sep 01, 2005; ... Greetings and welcome to the fourth issue of Software Quality Professional (SQP), volume 7. In this issue we have two authors who are new to SQP: one reviewer turned author, and one repeat author. John Musa gives us a look at software reliability as it has matured over the last decade. Linda ...
Software Requirements Engineering: What, Why, Who, When, and How
Sep 01, 2005; ... If software requirements are not right, companies will not end up with the software they need. This article discusses the various levels and types of requirements that need to be defined (what), the benefits of having the right software requirements (why), the stakeholders of the software ...
Software Reliability Engineering: Making Solid Progress
Sep 01, 2005; ... Arguably the most important software development problem is building software to meet customer demands that it be more reliable, built faster, and built cheaper (in general order of importance). Success in meeting these demands affects the company's market share and profitability of a product ...
An Approach to Quality Management at the Early Stages of New Product Development Using Technology Adoption Life-Cycle Concepts
Sep 01, 2005; ... Management of product quality while developing a new, innovative product, particularly in its early stages, is a challenging task because of the nature of priorities and the overall dynamics of the environment. This article suggests an outline for quality management in such an environment. An ...
The Team Handbook, 3rd Edition
Sep 01, 2005; ... GENERAL KNOWLEDGE The Team Handbook, 3rd Edition Peter R. Scholtes, Brian L. Joiner, and Barbara J. Streibel. 2003. Oriel Inc. (http://www.orielinc.com). 400 pages. ISBN 1-884731-26-0 CSQE Body of Knowledge area: General Knowledge, Conduct and Ethics For those who work for a ...
Systematic Process Improvement Using ISO 9001:2000 and CMMI®
Sep 01, 2005; ... SOFTWARE QUALITY MANAGEMENT Systematic Process Improvement Using ISO 9001:2000 and CMMI® Boris Mutafelija and Harvey Stromberg. 2003. Artech House (http://www.artechhouse.com). 307 pages. ISBN 1-58053-487-2 GSQE Body of Knowledge area: Software Quality Management The preface ...
The Art of Software Architecture: Design Methods and Techniques/Software Architecture Design Patterns in Java
Sep 01, 2005; ... SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROCESS The Art of Software Architecture: Design Methods and Techniques Stephen T. Albin. 2003. John Wiley and Sons (http://www.wiley.com). 312 pages. ISBN 0-471-22886-9 Software Architecture Design Patterns in Java Partha Kuchana. 2004. Auerbach Publications ...
Software Paradigms
Sep 01, 2005; ... Software Paradigms Stephen H. Kaisler. 2005. Wiley-Interscience (http://www.wiley.com). 442 pages. ISBN 0-471-48347-8 CSQE Body of Knowledge area: Software Engineering Process This is a textbook based on a graduate-level computer science course in software paradigms. The book ...
The Software Project Manager's Handbook, 2nd Edition
Sep 01, 2005; ... PROJECT AND PROCESS MANAGEMENT The Software Project Manager's Handbook, 2nd Edition Dwayne Phillips. 2004. Wiley Inter-Science (http://www.wiley.com). 483 pages. ISBN 0-471-67420-6 CSQE Body of Knowledge area: Program and Project Management Dwayne Phillips has written a good ...