Software Quality Assurance: From Theory to Implementation

by Daniel Galin

Software quality assurance (SQA) systems are vital for software developers in the software and the electronics industries as well as for information systems divisions in organizations. This book, based on many years of consulting and teaching experience, is designed to serve three students at universities and colleges, participants in vocational training courses in the industry and practitioners/professionals. Each chapter will conclude with commonly raised questions, problems, short case studies, and topics for discussion. The methodology to be presented in the book conforms with the requirements of ISO 9000 standards (ISO 9001 Quality Management and Quality Assurance Standard and of ISO 9000-3 Guidelines for the Application of ISO 9001 to the Development, Supply, Installation and Maintenance of Computer Software). The topics that will be covered will conform with the requirements of most vocational training programs (e.g.. the American Society for Quality's training program for Certified Software Quality Engineers). The book is designed to include in its appendices a collection of useful templates and checklists containing items of great interest to practitioners and students, and is accompanied by an Instructor's Solutions Manual and PowerPoint Slides.

640 pages, Hardcover

First published September 11, 2003

Reviews

[Burcu]

dönemi bitirdik şükürler olsun :P

[Mansur Mustaquim · Rating 2 out of 5]

Way too much emphasis on "classical" things. At one point even proposes a software quality assurance metrics based on the assumption that the development model will be linear sequential, which never happens in reality. Even Royce in his 1970's paper, which the author cites, mentioned that such a model will always fail. So why bother with creating metrics for a model we know will fail?

[Doron · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is a very detailed and systematic description of Software Testing aspects as quality plans, SQA components life cycle, and more.
Two major problems:
1. The text is a little captured in the author's imagination - for example, he knows ahead what the client will ask for, etc. You might say, well - he knows what to expect. OK, but here it is so detailed it almost stated the customer's private name and shirt color.
To make it more general: it is not context-driven but best-practice.
Or, in other words, as a person that works as a software tester since 1998, in enterprise companies as well as start-ups and all in the companies in the middle, I never encountered most of the described situations.
2. It is outdated. Although published in 2003, the word Agile is not mentioned at all (Agile Manifesto is from 2001), not Exploratory Testing. So it is not in correspondence with today's world of QA.

It is well written, very deep, thinks of a lot of scenarios, and useless.

[Gilberta Rubino]

This book provides an overview of software quality assurance (SQA) systems and the ISO 9000 standards. It is designed to serve university students, vocational training course participants, and practitioners/professionals. Each chapter concludes with questions, problems, case studies, and topics for discussion. The book also includes useful templates and checklists for practitioners and students, as well as an Instructor's Solutions Manual and PowerPoint Slides. To learn more about the topics covered in this book, please refer to the ISO 9000 standards and the American Society for Quality's training program for Certified Software Quality Engineers.

[Iurii Mednikov · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazing textbook in SQA that covers most important foundational concepts. It really helped to understand the subject