Software Excellence: A Total Quality Management Guide

by Shigeichi Moriguchi

Thanks to the great success of the QC movement, quality assurance has taken root in the earliest stages of technology development. Software Excellence addresses the assumption that software cannot be built without bugs. The author argues that the application of total quality principles and tools to software development will eliminate the lengthy and costly step of debugging that has become an accepted phase of software development. Table of Contents Publisher's Message
Preface
Editor's Foreword--Tadashi Yoshizawa
Editor's Foreword--Motohiro Higashi
List of Editors and Authors PART 1 -- QUALITY CONTROL METHODOLOGY
Chapter High-Quality Software
Chapter Total Quality Management (TQM)
Chapter Methods of Quality Control (QC) PART 2 -- QUALITY PROCESSES APPLIED TO SOFTWARE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT
Chapter Software Quality Control and Small-Group Activities in Software
Chapter High-Reliability Software
Chapter Software Development and Modularization
Chapter Software Documentation
Chapter Software Engineering
Chapter Change Management
Chapter Quality Improvement in Reuse
Chapter Quality Function Deployment for Software Development
Chapter Examples of Quality Measurement Systems
Chapter Methods for Quantitative Measurement and Evaluation of Quality
Chapter Production Planning for Software Products
Chapter Software Technology Management
Chapter Quality Design and Management Planning
Chapter Review and Process-Specific Management
Chapter Test Management and Audits
Chapter Maintenance Management
Glossary of Acronyms
Index

617 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1997