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- Please forgive the commercial nature of this post, but I thought that there
- would be at least a few net users interested in it, and couldn't figure out a
- way to disseminate the information in a way that would please everyone.
-
- Title: Software Quality and Productivity
- Author: Alec Sharp
- Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold
- ISBN: 0-442-01218-7
- Price: $44.95
-
- Synopsis: This book is targeted at software developers, and attempts to
- apply the philosophy of W. Edwards Deming to software development. Throughout
- the book the emphasis is on two things - reducing rework, and continually
- improving the system.
-
- However, adopting the philosphy of continual improvement means little unless
- you worry about the details of what you will do and how you will do it. The
- book contains both general ideas and specific suggestions of ways to improve
- things. Most people learn better from examples, so there are lots of examples.
- All code examples are in C.
-
- The book is not about doing it perfectly - I suspect perfection is impossible
- because different projects have different complexities, people vary too much in
- their needs, skill sets and personalities, and every solution contains the
- seeds of the new set of problems.
-
- Instead, a key theme of the book is to slowly but surely try to improve every
- facet of the way that software is developed, always keeping in mind the goal of
- reducing rework. This means trying new things and giving new ideas a chance,
- then evaluating the results.
-
-
- Contents
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-
- Preface
- 1. Quality, Productivity, and Continual Improvement
- 2. Thoughts about Software Development
- 3. Training
- 4. Metrics: Measuring for Improvement
- 5. Change
- 6. Software Tools
- 7. Requirements through Coding
- 8. Maintenance
- 9. Delivering Software
- 10. Project Teams
- 11. Prototyping
- 12. Requirements
- 13. The Solution
- 14. Modularization
- 15. Reusable Software
- 16. Methodologies
- 17. Specifications and Documents
- 18. Naming Conventions
- 19. Doccumentation
- 20. Functions
- 21. Files
- 22. Coding
- 23. Error Reporting
- 24. Testing
- 25. Debugging
- 26. Tracing
- 27. Technical Reviews
- 28. Review Checklists
- 29. Causal Analysis
-
-
- Alec
-
- Alec_Sharp@stortek.com Storage Tek, 2270 S. 88th Street
- (303)-673-2955 Louisville, CO 80028-4286
- "The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do."
- Burrhus Skinner, 1969
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