Practical Guide to Software Quality Management, Second Edition

John W. Horch

Artech House

Boston London www.artechhouse.com

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 Horch, John W.   Practical guide to software quality management.—2nd ed.—(Artech House computing library) 


1. Software engineering—Quality control I. Title

005.1'0685

ISBN 1-58053-527-5

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About the author

John W. Horch has an undergraduate degree in experimental statistics and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in information systems. He has been active in the software field for more than 45 years, of which some 40 years have been in software quality management. Dr. Horch has been granted professional certification as a software quality analyst, software test engineer, software quality examiner, and systems professional.

With extensive experience in the defense arena, Dr. Horch has worked on Army, Air Force, and Navy weapon systems in development, verification and validation, and quality management assignments. He designed systems for inventory control, configuration status accounting, secure data transmission, hardware test, and emulation of a military computer. He was responsible for documentation, standards, and software quality management on the Safeguard ABM system, and was manager of systems integrity for the International Systems Division of Sperry Univac. He also managed the Verification and Validation Section for Teledyne Brown Engineering and was director of quality for the COLSA Corporation.

In the commercial area, Dr. Horch developed and implemented formal software quality programs for large organizations, implemented and tested disaster recovery programs, performed detailed physical security risk analyses, and audited software quality and development programs for commercial enterprises.

Currently, in addition to international seminar and workshop presentations, Dr. Horch is active in verification and validation of documentation and software development programs. He reviews developers' software development, documentation, and quality programs on behalf of government and commercial clients.

Dr. Horch speaks regularly at conferences, symposia, and workshops worldwide. He is one of the authors of IEEE Standards 730-2002, 983-1985, 1074-1995, 1074.1-1995, and of ISO/IEC IS 12207 and Australian Standard AS 3563-1988. He is the project editor for the revision of IEEE Standard 1074 and participates in the international work on ISO standards 15504 and 9000-Part 3. He publishes on software quality management topics, referees submitted papers for conferences and journals, and is a book reviewer for software-oriented technical magazines.

Active in several professional organizations, Dr. Horch is a former member of the IEEE Standards Board, chaired its Procedures Audit Committee, and served on its New Standards Committee. He chaired the IEEE Computer Society Software Engineering Standards Subcommittee for 7 years and was the first IEEE CS representative to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7.

Dr. Horch is a member of the board of advisors and has served as director of certification activities for the Quality Assurance Institute. He was the founding chairman of the Certification Board for Information Quality Professionals. He currently serves on the board of advisors for QAI (USA) and QAI (India). Dr. Horch is a senior member of the IEEE and the ASQC and a member of the Quality Assurance Institute. Dr. Horch is the recipient of the IEEE Millennium Medal, the IEEE Computer Society's Golden Core award, and the QAI Lifetime Achievement Award.



Practical Guide to Software Quality Management
Practical Guide to Software Quality Management (Artech House Computing Library)
ISBN: 1580535275
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 137
Authors: John W. Horch

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