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  title info:
    title: Software Quality Assurance
    sub title: Consistency in the Face of Complexity and Change
  name:
    name part: Walkinshaw, Neil.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 181 p. 63 illus., 41 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This textbook offers undergraduate students an introduction to the main principles and some of the most popular techniques that constitute ‘software quality assurance’. The book seeks to engage students by placing an emphasis on the underlying foundations of modern quality-assurance techniques , using these to highlight why techniques work, as opposed to merely focussing on how they work. In doing so it provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of where software quality fits into the development lifecycle (spoiler: everywhere), and what the key quality assurance activities are. The book focuses on quality assurance in a way that typical, more generic software engineering reference books do not. It is structured so that it can (and should) be read from cover to cover throughout the course of a typical university module. Specifically, it is Concise: it is small enough to be readable in its entirety over the course of a typical software engineering module. Explanatory: topics are discussed not merely in terms of what they are, but also why they are the way they are – what events, technologies, and individuals or organisations helped to shape them into what they are now. Applied: topics are covered with a view to giving the reader a good idea of how they can be applied in practice, and by pointing, where possible, to evidence of their efficacy. The book starts from some of the most general notions (e.g. quality and development process), and gradually homes-in on the more specific activities, assuming knowledge of the basic notions established in prior chapters. Each chapter concludes with a “Key Points” section, summarising the main issues that have been covered in the chapter. Throughout the book there are exercises that serve to remind readers of relevant parts in the book that have been covered previously, and give them the opportunity to reflect on a particular topic and refer to related references.
  note: by Neil Walkinshaw.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Management information systems
  subject:
    topic: Software engineering
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Software Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Management of Computing and Information Systems
  subject:
    topic: Software Management
  classification: QA76.758
  classification: 005.1
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
  identifier: 9783319648224
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64822-4
  record info:
    record creation date: 170724
    record change date: 20171221021201.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-64822-4