Driving usability improvement in a company with over 100 different remotely-located software development organizations each using independent development processes presents specific Software Quality challenges. This paper describes the usability acceptance testing and usability risk assessment approaches that one organization instituted within this...

This document identifies guidelines that review high-integrity software requirements documents in nuclear power plants. The topic areas are conformance with the SRP accuracy functionality reliability robustness maintainability security timing and human-computer interaction. A checklist for the requirements and their ordering for a Software Requirements...

This document identifies guidelines that review high-integrity software requirements documents in nuclear power plants. The topic areas are conformance with the SRP accuracy functionality reliability robustness maintainability security timing and human-computer interaction. A checklist for the requirements and their ordering for a Software Requirements...

The succession of the Capability Maturity Model for Software SW-CMM and the System Engineering Capability Maturity Model EIA IS 731 by the Capability Maturity Model-Integrated CMMI will expose many organizations that currently use either the SW-CMM or the SE-CMM to the challenge of an effective and efficient transition from the old models to the...

Reviews can be effectively integrated in your workshops helping participants to create higher quality deliverables. Integrating reviews in your requirements workshops also helps participants to more fully explore how requirements relate to each other. This brief document provides you with a list of steps to employ before during and after a collaborative...

Inspections are hard to do for small and immature organizations. This paper shows a way to introduce author reader cycles without going all the way to extreme programming practices....

Inspections are hard to do for small and immature organizations. This paper shows a way to introduce author reader cycles without going all the way to extreme programming practices....

Errors in requirements specifications translate into poor designs code that does the wrong thing and unhappy customers. Requirements documentation should be inspected early and often. Anything you can do to prevent requirements errors from propagating downstream will save you time and money. Karl Wiegers shows you how....

Admit it When you re faced with a lengthy checklist for testing you re tempted to skip steps. Some of the items aren t really necessary are they They might be so obvious that there s no need to include them in the list. In this week s column Elisabeth Hendrickson offers some advice on constructing useful checklists that are brief but complete....

Getting process improvement just right is difficult. Go too far in the definition of processes and it really does get too hot with the heat coming from the people trying to use the processes. On the other hand process definitions that are too short to contain anything of value will leave users in the cold and then there will be no improvement in...

This paper focuses on the defect analysis aspect of the process improvement task and describes how it was deployed quickly and economically....

My personal experience of trying to introduce an Inspection programme at a UK software house. First presented at STAR East in Orlando May 1998....

Summary This checklist is intended to help with the creation of good test cases....

This document contains questions for systematically planning and preparing software testing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have you planned for an overall testing schedule and the personnel required and associated training requirements Have the test team members been given assignments...