Software quality assurance : in large scale and complex software-intensive systems

✍ Scribed by Ali, Nour; Grundy, John; Mistrík, Ivan; Soley, Richard Mark; Tekinerdogan, Bedir

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 397
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Software Quality Assurance in Large Scale and Complex Software-intensive Systems presents novel and high-quality research related approaches that relate the quality of software architecture to system requirements, system architecture and enterprise-architecture, or software testing. Modern software has become complex and adaptable due to the emergence of globalization and new software technologies, devices and networks. These changes challenge both traditional software quality assurance techniques and software engineers to ensure software quality when building today (and tomorrow’s) adaptive, context-sensitive, and highly diverse applications.

This edited volume presents state of the art techniques, methodologies, tools, best practices and guidelines for software quality assurance and offers guidance for future software engineering research and practice. Each contributed chapter considers the practical application of the topic through case studies, experiments, empirical validation, or systematic comparisons with other approaches already in practice. Topics of interest include, but are not limited, to: quality attributes of system/software architectures; aligning enterprise, system, and software architecture from the point of view of total quality; design decisions and their influence on the quality of system/software architecture; methods and processes for evaluating architecture quality; quality assessment of legacy systems and third party applications; lessons learned and empirical validation of theories and frameworks on architectural quality; empirical validation and testing for assessing architecture quality.

• Focused on quality assurance at all levels of software design and development
• Covers domain-specific software quality assurance issues e.g. for cloud, mobile, security, context-sensitive, mash-up and autonomic systems
• Explains likely trade-offs from design decisions in the context of complex software system engineering and quality assurance
• Includes practical case studies of software quality assurance for complex, adaptive and context-critical systems

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front-matter,Copyright,List of Contributors,Biography,Deployability,Foreword,PrefaceEntitled to full textChapter 1 - Quality concerns in large-scale and complex software-intensive systems, Pages 1-17
Chapter 2 - An introduction to modern software quality assurance, Pages 19-46
Chapter 3 - Defining software quality characteristics to facilitate software quality control and software process improvement, Pages 47-61
Chapter 4 - Quality management and software process engineering, Pages 63-83
Chapter 5 - Architecture viewpoints for documenting architectural technical debt, Pages 85-132
Chapter 6 - Quality management and Software Product Quality Engineering, Pages 133-150
Chapter 7 - “Filling in the blanks”: A way to improve requirements management for better estimates, Pages 151-176
Chapter 8 - Investigating software modularity using class and module level metrics, Pages 177-200
Chapter 9 - Achieving quality on software design through test-driven development, Pages 201-220
Chapter 10 - Architectural drift analysis using architecture reflexion viewpoint and design structure reflexion matrices, Pages 221-236
Chapter 11 - Driving design refinement: How to optimize allocation of software development assurance or integrity requirements, Pages 237-250
Chapter 12 - Model-based dependability analysis: State-of-the-art, challenges, and future outlook, Pages 251-278
Chapter 13 - Influences of architectural and implementation choices on CyberInfrastructure quality—a case study, Pages 279-332
Chapter 14 - Exploiting the synergies between SQA, SQC, and SPI in order for an organization to leverage Sarbanes Oxley internal control budgets, Pages 333-346
Glossary, Pages 347-355
Author Index, Pages 357-361
Subject Index, Pages 363-373