Software Quality:Software Quality Related Sites
Content rich resources for software quality information.
- Agena -- Bayesian Networks and Software Metrics Resources This site provides access to a collection of articles that
give an overview of software quality, software metrics, and Bayesian
Belief Networks.
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Software Quality Group The Software Quality Group develops tools, methods, and related models for the
tracing of software processes to variables and related resource utilizations, thus
helping industry with improving the quality of software development and maintenance.
Semantic correctness, formal methods techniques, performance assessment, and
benchmarking are also candidate tasks for this group.
- R.S. Pressman & Associates, Inc. -- Software Quality Assurance This site contains a large collection of software quality assurance related resources. Links are provided for other sites, software tools, a tutorial, and auditing checklists.
- SEI Personal Software Process (PSP)
The PSP is an Software Engineering Institute (SEI) technology that brings discipline to the practices
of individual software engineers, dramatically improving the
quality, predictability, and cycle time for software-intensive
systems.
- PSP Adoption Adoption of PSP practices is not as straight forward as obtaining training
for the engineers that will use the PSP. By adoption the authors mean cultural
acceptance and use of the technology. When careful attention is paid to
the process of technology insertion, organizations are successful in
adopting PSP.
- PSP Background This white paper provides background PSP information.
One of the authors' goals in producing this paper was to provide
data in one location that would be useful to individuals
producing a PSP justification proposal.
- PSP Bibliography This annotated bibliography is maintained by the Software
Technology Support Center's (STSC) PSP instructors.
- Personal Software Process (PSP) The Personal Software Process (PSP) is an SEI technology that brings discipline to the
practices of individual software engineers, dramatically improving the quality, predictability, and
cycle time for software-intensive systems.
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- SEI Process Program The Process Program at the SEI provides leadership to software dependent organizations by transitioning proven, state-of-the-art, process focused methods for improving product costs, schedule and quality.
- SEI's Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Overview [PDF] This site presents a brief overview to the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM).
- SPICE: Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination SPICE is a major international initiative to support the development of an International Standard for Software Process Assessment. The project has three principal goals:
to develop a working draft for a standard for software process assessment;
to conduct industry trials of the emerging standard; and
to promote the technology transfer of software process
assessment into the software industry world-wide.
- SR/Institute's Software Quality Hotlist SR/Institute maintains this list of links to selected organizations and institutions which support the software quality and software testing area. Organizations and other references are classified by type, by geographic area, and then in alphabetic order within each geographic area.
This information rich site provides access to a broad range of software quality and
testing resources.
- Software Quality Assurance This page is a gathering place for references related to the theory and practice of Software Quality Assurance. It is growing to include information on:
Standards and Development Procedures,
Product Evaluation and Process Monitoring,
Configuration Management Monitoring,
The Role of SQA in the Product Development Cycle, and
Automated Testing Tools.
- Software Quality Assurance Sites This site provides access to sites that feature software quality processes, organizations,
and conferences and software quality publications.
- Software Quality Links This site provides a browsable collection of software quality links.
- Software Testing and Quality Assurance -- a CompInfo Directory This site presents a collection of testing resources in the following areas:
Beginners, Glossary and Background, Technical Knowledge
Bases, News, Events, Books, Magazines, Manufacturers,
Products and Reviews, White Papers, Reports and Articles,
Training Tools, Where to buy, Where to get help,
Trainers, News Groups, Mail Lists and FAQs, User Groups, and Trade Associations.
- Stachour's Software Engineering and Software Quality References This site provides a large collection of links to software engineering and software quality resources.
- Tantara's Software Process Improvement (SPI) and Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Hotlist Tantara provides a collection of Software Process Improvement (SPI) and software quality resources.
The site includes links to SPI resources, focus groups, SQA resources, SPINs, online newsletters
and e-journals, magazines,associations, seminal documents, discussion groups,
and governing agents for standards/models.
- TickIT: Software Quality Systems -- A Special Case? TickIT is a scheme for the certification of quality management systems which conform to the
requirements of the ISO 9001 Standard and has been specifically designed for the software
development sector. A companion article outlines the purpose and aims of TickIT, and explains
the advantages of TickIT certification.