Managing Software Quality : A Measurement Framework for Assessment and Prediction PDF

This is one of the shorter books in the 21 volume Practitioner Book Series, but this is entirely appropriate for a text on the ubiquitous topic of Quality.

The book is written in a concise, precise no-nonsense style by two interna- tional authors.

They are supported in their approach by relevant personal practical experience and by peer-review of other researchers obtained whilst disseminating their research in the academic literature.

The authors base their book around their Objective/Principles/ Attributes (OPA) Framework, developed in the first place for assessment and prediction of software quality.

After OPA was developed as a procedure for evaluating software development methodologies, it was expanded to include software quality measurement with the inclusion of statistical indicators and a systematic basis for deriving them.

The OPA is an holistic approach to soft- ware quality and prediction.

The approach has been validated through experience gained on a 4-year on-site project, which has also led to improve- ments to the framework.