Chapter 20. The Software-Quality Landscape

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Contents

• Characteristics of Software Quality page 463

• Techniques for Improving Software Quality page 466

• Relative Effectiveness of Quality Techniques page 469

• When to Do Quality Assurance page 473

• The General Principle of Software Quality page 474

Related Topics

• Collaborative construction: Chapter 21

• Developer testing: Chapter 22

• Debugging: Chapter 23

• Prerequisites to construction: Chapters 3 and 4

• Do prerequisites apply to modern software projects?: in Section 3.1

This chapter surveys software-quality techniques from a construction point of view. The entire book is about improving software quality, of course, but this chapter focuses on quality and quality assurance per se. It focuses more on big-picture issues than it does on hands-on techniques. If you're looking for practical advice about collaborative development, testing, and debugging, move on to the next three chapters.