- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > Computer / General
Full Description
"Whether consulting, working on projects, or teaching, whenever I need credible, detailed, relevant metrics and insights into the current capabilities and performance of the software engineering profession, I always turn first to Capers Jones' work. In this important new book, he and Olivier Bonsignour make the hard-headed, bottom-line, economic case, with facts and data, about why software quality is so important. I know I'll turn to this excellent reference again and again."-Rex Black, President, RBCSPoor quality continues to bedevil large-scale development projects, but few software leaders and practitioners know how to measure quality, select quality best practices, or cost-justify their usage. In The Economics of Software Quality, leading software quality experts Capers Jones and Olivier Bonsignour show how to systematically measure the economic impact of quality and how to use this information to deliver far more business value.Using empirical data from hundreds of software organizations, Jones and Bonsignour show how integrated inspection, structural quality measurement, static analysis, and testing can achieve defect removal rates exceeding 95 percent. They offer innovative guidance for predicting and measuring defects and quality; choosing defect prevention, pre-test defect removal, and testing methods; and optimizing post-release defect reporting and repair.This book will help youMove beyond functional quality to quantify non-functional and structural qualityProve that improved software quality translates into strongly positive ROI and greatly reduced TCODrive better results from current investments in Quality Assurance and TestingUse quality improvement techniques to stay on schedule and on budgetAvoid "hazardous" metrics that lead to poor decisions
Contents
Foreword xixPreface xxiAcknowledgments xxviiAbout the Authors xxxiChapter 1: Defining Software Quality and Economic Value 1Introduction 1Defining Software Quality 8Defining Economic Value and Defining the Value of Software Quality 17Summary and Conclusions 33Chapter 2: Estimating and Measuring Software Quality 35Introduction 35Using Function Point Metrics for Defect Potentials 39Software Defect Potentials 39Estimating Software Defect Prevention 71Estimating Software Defect Detection and Defect Removal 74Measuring Application Structural Quality 77Examples of Structural Quality Assessments 88Three Problems That Distort Software Economic Analysis 95Summary and Conclusions on Software Quality Estimation and Measurement 117Chapter 3: Software Defect Prevention 119Introduction 119Analysis of Defect Prevention Results 135Summary and Conclusions of Software Defect Prevention 188Chapter 4: Pretest Defect Removal 191Introduction 191Small Project Pretest Defect Removal 196Large System Pretest Defect Removal 201Analysis of Pretest Defect Removal Activities 208Summary and Conclusions about Pretest Defect Removal 277Chapter 5: Software Testing 279Introduction 279Summary and Conclusions on Software Testing 344Chapter 6: Post-Release Defect Removal 347Introduction 347User and Industry Costs from Post-Release Defects 409Summary and Conclusions on Post-Release Defects 431Chapter 7: Analyzing the Economics of Software Quality 433Introduction 433The Economic Value of Software 435Economic Impact of Low-Quality and High-Quality Software 460Summary and Conclusions on the Economics of Software Quality 541References and Readings 545Index 561
