Software QA Books

Quality Software Management : Systems Thinking (Gerald M. Weinberg)

ISBN: 0932633226

In this first volume of the Quality Software Management series, Gerald M. Weinberg tackles the first requirement for developing quality software: learning to think correctly - about problems, solutions, and quality itself.

It's about the ability to understand complex situations so you can plan a project and then observe and act so as to keep the project going according to plan, or modify the plan. This isn't so easy to do, because the software being built may be more complex than almost anything build before. Therefore, simple linear thinking leads to all sorts of fallacious conclusions and project disasters.
To succeed in the software profession, you have to become a systems thinker. This volume teaches you how, using numerous common and uncommon software situations.

Guidelines on management are introduced to stimulate the kind of thinking needed.
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Quality Software Management : First-Order Measurement (Gerald M. Weinberg)

ISBN: 0932633242
This second stand-alone volume of the series offers you a step-by-step plan for gathering reliable information through careful observation and measurement.

Specific techniques are explained in detail, with a model that divides the complex measurement process into four steps: Intake; Meaning; Significance; Response.

Each step illustrates how to more precisely observe and measure the software development process.

Weinberg targets the key factors to measure, so as to produce consistent quality software 

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Quality Software Management : Congruent Action  (Gerald M. Weinberg)

ISBN: 0932633285
To produce high-quality software, we need high-quality, effective managers. Becoming such a manager is the subject of this third stand-alone volume in Gerald Weinberg's highly acclaimed series. To be effective, managers must act congruently. That is, managers must not only understand the concepts of good software engineering, but also practice them, which sounds easier than it is in practice. Standing in the way is a lot of emotional baggage that we all carry, the author asserts, and congruence is the way to cope with our emotional baggage. Congruence has the sense of "fitting" - in this case simultaneously fitting your own needs, the needs of the other people involved, and the contextual needs (in business, for example, the business needs). Examples, diagrams, and tools such as the Myers-Briggs indicator fortify the author's recommendations. 

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Quality Software Management : Anticipating Change (Gerald M. Weinberg)

ISBN: 0932633323
Change is inherently dangerous. Moreover, change becomes even more dangerous when we don't know what we're doing. Attempts to change software organizations commonly fail because of inadequate understanding of change dynamics - the same reason the organizations got into crisis in the first place. Jerry Weinberg concludes his series of four stand-alone volumes with this pragmatic, comprehensive testament on the fundamentals of change management. From systems thinking to project management to technology transfer to the interaction of culture and process, this volume analyzes change from a broad range of perspectives, spanning the spectrum of sources of organizational change. Such breadth of awareness is essential for successful management of system evolution. 

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Software Testing and Continuous Quality Improvement (William E. Lewis)

ISBN: 0849398339
This book helps accelerate the development of high quality software using continuous process improvement. The book starts with an overview of basic quality principles and how you can apply the continuous improvement cycle to software testing. It then reviews waterfall life cycle testing, followed by an extensive RAD testing methodology for client/server and the internet. The final section provides a comprehensive analysis of modern testing tools. It provides the user with a quality standard for the software testing process in structured and unstructured environments. Presents a continuous quality framework based on Deming's rapid application, spiral development model for quality through a continuous improvement process. 

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Creating a Software Engineering Culture (Karl E. Wiegers)

ISBN: 0932633331
Written in a remarkably clear style, Creating a Software Engineering Culture presents a comprehensive approach to improving the quality and effectiveness of the software development process. In twenty chapters spread over six parts, Wiegers promotes the tactical changes required to support process improvement and high-quality software development. Throughout the text, Wiegers identifies scores of culture builders and culture killers, and he offers a wealth of references to resources for the software engineer, including seminars, conferences, publications, videos, and on-line information. With case studies on process improvement and software metrics programs and an entire Part on action planning (called "What to Do on Monday"), this practical book guides the reader in applying the concepts to real life. Topics include: software culture concepts, team behaviors, the five dimensions of a software project, recognizing achievements, optimizing customer involvement, the project champion model, tools for sharing the vision, requirements traceability matrices, the capability maturity model, action planning, testing, inspections, metrics-based project estimation, the cost of quality, and much more.

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Exploring Requirements : Quality Before Design (Donald C. Gause, Gerald M. Weinberg)

ISBN: 0932633137
An innovative book that gives you the understanding you need to give people the solutions they want. The collaborative team of Gause and Weinberg tells how you can assure the requirements are right -- before the product is designed. Written by two authorities in the field, this book is a collection of ideas developed, refined, and tested during their more than sixty combined years of work with both large and small organizations. The techniques formulated in Exploring Requirements are not merely theoretical; they have been used effectively to develop a wide range of products - from computer software to furniture, books, and buildings. Systems analysts and anyone involved with the challenges of the requirements process will greatly benefit from this book 

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Software Inspection (Tom Gilb, Dorothy Graham, Susannah Finzi [Editor])

ISBN: 0201631814
The Inspection techniques illustrated in this book have brought clear benefits in terms of lower (or even zero) defects, higher productivity, better project tracking and improved documentation.

The techniques are based (with improvements and extensions) on Michael E. Fagan's Inspection method, developed for IBM. Dorothy Graham and Mark Fewster are the principal consultant partners of Grove Consultants which provides consultancy and training in software testing, test automation, and Inspection. Mark Fewster developed the test automation design techniques which are the primary subject of this book. He has been refining and applying his ideas through consultancy with a wide variety of clients since 1991. Dorothy Graham is the originator and co-author of the CAST Report (Computer Aided Software Testing tools) published by Cambridge Market Intelligence, and the co-author of Software Inspection published by Addison-Wesley in 1993.

Both authors are popular and sought-after speakers at international conferences and workshops on software testing.

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Inroads to software quality (Alka Jarvis and Vern Crandall)

ISBN 0132384035

Focusing on software quality and software testing, this text starts with the base of traditional methods of building software, and moves into a discussion of the product delivery process.

This is a well-defined quality process which is efficient, self-correcting, market-driven, and customer-oriented. It radically changes how software is built and delivered and eliminates the need to perform traditional functional testing. The authors show why this paradigm works and the very positive effect it can have on software quality. Designed to ensure that the reader can learn to improve process and quality without delving into theories and complex mathematical equations, the book provides details on writing a successful test plan and includes a template to guide the reader.

After reading the book the reader should be able to write a test plan and know what to watch for when outsourcing projects.

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Managing Risk: Methods for Software Systems Development (Elaine M. Hall Ph.D.)
ISBN: 0201255928
Risk is inherent in the development of any large software system.

A common approach to risk in software development is to ignore it and hope that no serious problems occur.

Leading software companies use quantitative risk management methods as a more useful approach to achieve success. Written for busy professionals charged with delivering high-quality products on time and within budget, Managing Risk is a comprehensive guide that describes a success formula for managing software risk.

The book is divided into five parts that describe a risk management road map designed to take you from crisis to control of your software project.
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Assessment and Control of Software Risks (Yourdon Press Computing) (Capers Jones, T. Capers Jones)
ISBN: 0137414064
This handbook summarizes more than 50 of the major problems of building and maintaining software projects, and outlines the prevention/control “therapies” available.

It considers in depth the software-related risks in the domains of methodologies, tools, organization structures, skills and specialization, client relations, and sociological issues.

For software managers and software professionals in software engineering, software quality assurance, and related software areas.
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Handbook of Managing Software Quality and Business Risk (Martyn Ould)

ISBN 047199782X

This book is addressed to software project leaders, managers and technicians. The unifying theme is studying and perfecting the planning process, and ensuring that a project plan has minimised associated risks and maximised quality.

Software development failures are invariably caused by a combination of circumstances - circumstances that are rarely technical in origin. Increasingly, standard risk management practices used in other industries are being applied to software development projects. At the same time, the software industry has worked to manage the quality of the software that is delivered to clients.

In this book, readers will learn three principle techniques: risk planning, quality planning, and cost resource planning. These techniques are presented in an orderly and stepwise fashion which will help factor in both risk and quality during the development of a software project. 

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Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering (Stephen H Kan)

ISBN 0201633396

This work provides the necessary tools and ideas for measuring and improving the quality of an entire software development process from high-level to low-level design, and all phases of testing for reliability. It integrates metrics with models and quality improvement strategies, and action plans with actual project experiences to improve the entire software development series.

The book is intended for use by software project managers, software development managers, software engineers, software product assurance personnel, and students in software engineering and in management information systems. It provides practical guidelines and examples in the practice of quality engineering in software development. Although equations and formulas are involved, the focus is on the understanding and applications of the metrics and models (rather than mathematical derivations). Throughout the book, numerous real-life examples are used from the development of the IBM Application System/400 (AS/400) at IBM Rochester, Minnesota, and from other companies in the software industry. (IBM Rochester won the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 1990 and became ISO 9000 registered in 1992.)

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Customer Oriented Software Quality Assurance (Frank P Ginac)

ISBN 0135714648

This text defines a straightforward process for incorporating the customer into the whole software design process, from developing quality requirements to metrics selection, and from test development to appraisal.

While management quality programs focus on statistics like percentages of code coverage and errors per thousand lines of code, your customers' quality requirements may be totally overlooked. Of course successful products have to work well, but what exactly does "work well" mean to your customers?

Now you can learn how to put your customers at the center of your organization's software quality program.
In an engagingly personal style, Customer Oriented Software Quality Assurance gives you the complete picture
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Improving Software Quality: An Insider's Guide to TQM (Lowell J Arthur)

ISBN 0471578045

This book focuses on the variety of techniques used to achieve total quality management (TQM), a Japanese style methodology for quality improvement. TQM involves managing and directing the forces of Information Systems Staff to identify the root causes of problems in the software life cycle, and solve them. The author stresses the importance of adopting TQM in the area of software systems. Also included are numerous graphs, charts and pictures to help clarify the topic.

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