Verification and Validation, it was discussed in this blog a few weeks ago and you can find it here. In a quick way of putting it, the difference between them can be easily understood with the following questions: Verification: Are we building the product right?Validation: Are we building the right product? After getting to know... Continue Reading →
Testing, testing and testing
In the last post, I explained what software review and inspection was, but now, software testing is the next step. Testing is kind of the in-between of review and improvement. This is because the main objective of software testing is to find the requirements that are being completed in the state of the software. In... Continue Reading →
Code inspection, software review
The patterns that guarantee software quality are no other than software review and code inspection patterns. These concepts are in charge of going through activities performed by others to find design defects that are produced throughout the development of the software. These types of reviews test, control and generate metrics of others to evaluate the... Continue Reading →
Software V&V
Software Verification and Validation, without this two concepts, software development would be just a luck machine. By luck, I mean that you would need to have the luck to guess what the client wants and if the software that one is developing is in fact what the client desires. With that said, there are two... Continue Reading →
SPI Models have standards
Software Quality in business has a fundamental process which is the improvement phase. This process has been developing throughout the years and some models have been created to make standards. And as the meme says, "professionals have standards", so to be in a competitive scope with process improvement, one must understand the basics of some... Continue Reading →
The Art of Software Quality
What is software quality? Why is it so important? Is it just a list of requirements to be achieved? or is it more of a social conformation? The answer for all those questions can be found in both sides of the coin. Muntasir Abdullah wrote a post about software quality where he defines this blending... Continue Reading →
Hello from the software quality and testing class
New semester and new class to write about. This time, as the title says, I will be discussing about software quality and testing topics. The difference from this class to the others that I have been writing about is that this time there will be fewer posts. But, the length of those posts will increase... Continue Reading →