Overview
Software quality, by its very nature, is elusive! Add to that the ever-changing user requirements and the vagaries of software project management, and we end up with "quality" as a mere word on a distant horizon. This highly acclaimed work redresses this shortcoming by harnessing the capability of the industry-standard Unified Modeling Language (UML) within a process framework to help reduce complexity, clarify requirements, and add the sorely missing project management structure, resulting in software quality here and now!Process Quality Assurance for UML-Based Projects focuses on the crucial process aspect of software quality. In an easy, entertaining way, the author outlines common-sense strategies for determining the applicability of UML to a project, creating and managing project teams, identifying the levels of quality standards, applying quality techniques, and estimating and testing in UML-based projects.
With This Book You Will be Able to:
- Understand the elusive nature of software quality, the pressures on software quality, and the importance of processes and modeling in enhancing software quality
- Divide modeling into three distinct but related spaces—problem, solution, and background space—and correlate the roles of business analyst, system designer, and system architect to these modeling spaces respectively
- Understand quality discussions applicable to small, medium, and large projects
- Appreciate the sociological aspect of quality management in software projects , including the value of transactional analysis (TA) in team formation and motivation
- Relate to an iterative and incrementalprocess based on the concepts of process-components and related activities, tasks, roles, and deliverables
- Move your organization forward in terms of CMM process maturity
- Gain valuable and practical insights into process and project metrics, measurements, and estimations
- Appreciate the strategic aspect of testing as it relates to quality assurance
- Understand quality discussions applicable to new developments, integration, package implementation, outsourcing, data warehousing, and educational projects
- Access extremely well-referenced work by leading practitioners, researchers, and academicians
- Estimate and refine process and project metrics
At the end of each chapter, key points are encapsulated in FAQs and exercises for easy referencing and team training. An accompanying CD-ROM contains chapter details, diagrams in a course format, customizable templates, metrics for improving quality, a starting project plan based on process-components, and trial versions of relevant process tools.