Economics of Software Quality

Name: Economics of Software Quality
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ISBN: 9780132582209

ISBN-10: 0132582201

ISBN-13: 9780132582209

Edition: 2012

Authors: Capers Jones, Jitendra Subramanyam, Olivier Bonsignour

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Poor quality continues to bedevil large-scale development projects, but few software leaders and practitioners know how to measure quality, select quality best practices, or cost-justify their usage. In The Economics of Software Quality ,leading software quality experts Capers Jones and Jitendra Subramanyam show how to systematically measure the economic impact of quality and how to use this information to deliver far more business value. Using empirical data from hundreds of software organizations, Jones and Subramanyam show how integrated inspection, static analysis, and testing can achieve defect removal rates exceeding 95 percent. They offer innovative guidance for predicting and…

Book details

List price: $79.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
Publication date: 7/24/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 624
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments


About the Authors



Defining Software Quality and Economic Value


Introduction


Defining Software Quality


Defining Economic Value and Defining the Value of Software Quality


Summary and Conclusions



Estimating and Measuring Software Quality


Introduction


Using Function Point Metrics for Defect Potentials


Software Defect Potentials


Estimating Software Defect Prevention


Estimating Software Defect Detection and Defect Removal


Measuring Application Structural Quality


Examples of Structural Quality Assessments


Three Problems That Distort Software Economic Analysis


Summary and Conclusions on Software Quality Estimation and Measurement



Software Defect Prevention


Introduction


Analysis of Defect Prevention Results


Summary and Conclusions of Software Defect Prevention



Pretest Defect Removal


Introduction


Small Project Pretest Defect Removal


Large System Pretest Defect Removal


Analysis of Pretest Defect Removal Activities


Summary and Conclusions about Pretest Defect Removal



Software Testing


Introduction


Summary and Conclusions on Software Testing



Post-Release Defect Removal


Introduction


User and Industry Costs from Post-Release Defects


Summary and Conclusions on Post-Release Defects



Analyzing the Economics of Software Quality


Introduction


The Economic Value of Software


Economic Impact of Low-Quality and High-Quality Software


Summary and Conclusions on the Economics of Software Quality


References and Readings


Index