The Economics of Software Quality, Video Enhanced Edition
The Economics of Software Quality, Video Enhanced Edition

Author: Capers Jones

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2011-12-31

Total Pages: 741

ISBN-13: 0133006530

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This is the video enhanced eBook version of the printed book. It contains 55 minutes of video conversations & tips from the industry's leading software management consultant, Capers Jones. Important note: The audio and video content included with this enhanced eBook can be viewed only using iBooks on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Due to the incredibly rich media included in your enhanced eBook, you may experience longer than usual download times. Please be patient while your product is delivered. “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, RBCS Poor 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 you Move beyond functional quality to quantify non-functional and structural quality Prove that improved software quality translates into strongly positive ROI and greatly reduced TCO Drive better results from current investments in Quality Assurance and Testing Use quality improvement techniques to stay on schedule and on budget Avoid “hazardous” metrics that lead to poor decisions

The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering
The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering

Author: Capers Jones

Publisher: Addison-Wesley

Published: 2013-11-21

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 0133365891

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“Capers Jones has accumulated the most comprehensive data on every aspect of software engineering, and has performed the most scientific analysis on this data. Now, Capers performs yet another invaluable service to our industry, by documenting, for the first time, its long and fascinating history. Capers’ new book is a must-read for every software engineering student and information technology professional.” — From the Foreword by Tony Salvaggio, CEO and president, Computer Aid, Inc. Software engineering is one of the world’s most exciting and important fields. Now, pioneering practitioner Capers Jones has written the definitive history of this world-changing industry. Drawing on several decades as a leading researcher and innovator, he illuminates the field’s broad sweep of progress and its many eras of invention. He assesses the immense impact of software engineering on society, and previews its even more remarkable future. Decade by decade, Jones examines trends, companies, winners, losers, new technologies, productivity/quality issues, methods, tools, languages, risks, and more. He reviews key inventions, estimates industry growth, and addresses “mysteries” such as why programming languages gain and lose popularity. Inspired by Paul Starr’s Pulitzer Prize–winning The Social Transformation of American Medicine, Jones’ new book is a tour de force—and compelling reading for everyone who wants to understand how software became what it is today. COVERAGE INCLUDES • The human need to compute: from ancient times to the modern era • Foundations of computing: Alan Turing, Konrad Zuse, and World War II • Big business, big defense, big systems: IBM, mainframes, and COBOL • A concise history of minicomputers and microcomputers: the birth of Apple and Microsoft • The PC era: DOS, Windows, and the rise of commercial software • Innovations in writing and managing code: structured development, objects, agile, and more • The birth and explosion of the Internet and the World Wide Web • The growing challenges of legacy system maintenance and support • Emerging innovations, from wearables to intelligent agents to quantum computing • Cybercrime, cyberwarfare, and large-scale software failure

Software Quality. The Future of Systems- and Software Development
Software Quality. The Future of Systems- and Software Development

Author: Dietmar Winkler

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-10

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 3319270338

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the scientific track of the 8th Software Quality Days Conference, SWQD 2016, held in Vienna, Austria, in January 2016. The SWQD conference offers a range of comprehensive and valuable information by presenting new ideas from the latest research papers, keynote speeches by renowned academics and industry leaders, professional lectures, exhibits, and tutorials. The five scientific full papers accepted for SWQD were each peer reviewed by three or more reviewers and selected out of 13 high-quality submissions. Further, nine short papers were also presented and are included in this book. In addition, one keynote paper by Scott Ambler and Mark Lines is also included.

Indian Economic Superpower
Indian Economic Superpower

Author: Jayashankar M. Swaminathan

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 9812814663

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The past 15 years have witnessed unprecedented expansion in the economy of India. This book offers analysis of both potential opportunities & pitfalls to avoid in the software, business process outsourcing, manufacturing, logistics, aviation, marketing, telemedicine & other sectors of the Indian economy.

Handbook of Research on Software Quality Innovation in Interactive Systems
Handbook of Research on Software Quality Innovation in Interactive Systems

Author: Cipolla-Ficarra, Francisco Vicente

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2021-03-19

Total Pages: 501

ISBN-13: 179987012X

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The inclusion of experts in communicability in the software industry has allowed timeframes to speed up in the commercialization of new technological products worldwide. However, this constant evolution of software in the face of the hardware revolution opens up a host of new horizons to maintain and increase the quality of the interactive systems following a set of standardized norms and rules for the production of interactive software. Currently, we see some efforts towards this goal, but they are still partial solutions, incomplete, and flawed from the theoretical as well as practical points of view. If the quality of the interactive design is analyzed, it is left to professionals to generate systems that are efficient, reliable, user-friendly, and cutting-edge. The Handbook of Research on Software Quality Innovation in Interactive Systems analyzes the quality of the software applied to the interactive systems and considers the constant advances in the software industry. This book reviews the past and present of information and communication technologies with a projection towards the future, along with analyses of software, software design, phrases to use, and the purposes for software applications in interactive systems. This book is ideal for students, professors, researchers, programmers, analysists of systems, computer engineers, interactive designers, managers of software quality, and evaluators of interactive systems.

The Economics of Software Quality
The Economics of Software Quality

Author: Capers Jones

Publisher: Addison-Wesley

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 623

ISBN-13: 0132582201

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Poor 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 Jitendra Subramanyam 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 Subramanyam show how integrated inspection, 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 you Prove that improved software quality translates into strongly positive ROI and greatly reduced TCO Drive better results from current investments in debugging and prevention Use quality techniques to stay on schedule and on budget Avoid "hazardous" metrics that lead to poor decisions Important note: The audio and video content included with this enhanced eBook can be viewed only using iBooks on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.

The Media Economy
The Media Economy

Author: Alan B. Albarran

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-07-02

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 113585422X

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The Media Economy analyzes the media industries and their activities from macro to micro levels, using concepts and theories to demonstrate the role the media plays in the economy as a whole. Representing a rapidly changing and evolving environment, this text breaks new ground through its analysis from two unique perspectives: examining the media industries from a holistic perspective by analyzing how the media industries function across different levels of society (global, national, household and individual) looking at the key forces (technology, globalization, regulation, and social aspects) constantly evolving and influencing the media industries. It includes examples from both developed and developing nations, as well as data and trends from these countries, offering a broad arena of study. Key features of this innovative text include: topics new to media economics texts, such as finance and investment, labor, and social aspects accessible discussion of complicated concepts and their application to media industries new directions for both theoretical and methodological areas. With the media industries in an ongoing state of change and transformation, The Media Economy offers new reference points for the field to consider when defining and analyzing media markets. It is essential reading for students and practitioners in media management and economics who need to understand the role of media in the global economy.

Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality
Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality

Author: Nazim Madhavji

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-03-18

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 3030444295

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering - Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2020, which was due to be held in Pisa, Italy, in March 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually in June 2020. The 14 full papers and 7 short papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 84 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: requirements specification; requirements documentation; privacy and legal requirements; stakeholders feedback and training; agile methods and requirements comprehension; requirements modelling; requirements visualization.

Software Project Management
Software Project Management

Author: Moh’d A. Radaideh

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-12-18

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 3111206866

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Software Project Management (SPM) differs from the Traditional Project Management (PM) approaches in that Software Engineering requires multiple rounds of Software Testing, and Updating in accordance with their Testing results and their customer’s feedback. Thus, SPM introduces unique life cycle processes.This book presents an introduction and a critical analysis of the main Software Project Management Frameworks, and offers the author’s original approach to SPM as developed by him over years of professional and teaching experience in the Academia and the IT/Software Industry. It also provides Executive Summaries of the Project Management and Software Project Management Perspectives offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI), the IEEE-Computer Society (IEEE-CS), and the SCRUM Project Management Bodies such as the SCRUMstudy.

Technology Enhanced Learning: Quality of Teaching and Educational Reform
Technology Enhanced Learning: Quality of Teaching and Educational Reform

Author: Miltiadis D. Lytras

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-05-30

Total Pages: 724

ISBN-13: 3642131662

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It is a great pleasure to share with you the Springer CCIS proceedings of the First International Conference on Reforming Education, Quality of Teaching and Technology-Enhanced Learning: Learning Technologies, Quality of Education, Educational Systems, Evaluation, Pedagogies––TECH-EDUCATION 2010, Which was a part of the World Summit on the Knowledge Society Conference Series. TECH-EDUCATION 2010 was a bold effort aiming to foster a debate on the global need in our times to invest in education. The topics of the conference dealt with six general pillars: Track 1. Quality of Education––A new Vision Track 2. Technology-Enhanced Learning––Learning Technologies––Personalization-E-learning Track 3. Educational Strategies Track 4. Collaborative/ Constructive/ Pedagogical/ Didactical Approaches Track 5. Formal/ Informal/ and Life–Long Learning Perspectives Track 6. Contribution of Education to Sustainable Development Within this general context the Program Committee of the conference invited contributions that fall in to the following list of topics. Track 1: Quality of the Education––A new Vision • Teaching Methodologies and Case Studies • Reforms in Degrees • The European Educational Space • Academic Curricula Designs • Quality of Teaching and Learning • Quality and Academic Assessment • The School / University of the Future • Challenges for Higher Education in the 21st Century • New Managerial Models for Education • Financing the New Model for Education of the 21st Century • The Quality Milestones for Education of the 21st Century • Evaluation in Academia • The Role of Teachers • International Collaborations for Joint Programs/Degrees • Industry–Academia Synergies • Research Laboratories Management