Group:
organizations
Group:
software maintenance
Group:
testing
Topic:
bugs
Topic:
Cleanroom software development
Topic:
consistency testing
Topic:
design errors
Topic:
software change management
Topic:
software management
Topic:
software metrics
Topic:
software review
Topic:
specification errors
Topic:
statistical testing based on a usage profile
Topic:
test scripts
Topic:
testing testing
Topic:
usability errors
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Subtopic: check everything 
| Quote: test every logical path in a program at least once; uncovers most coding errors; customers should require a certified test [»roycWW8_1970]
| | Quote: use ATAfakeIt to force an assertion failure when testing code; exercise each assertion [»millKW3_2001]
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Subtopic: database quality
| Quote: use database quality to evalute software; many applications have flawed databases without much improvement over the years [»blahM2_2004]
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Subtopic: statistical quality control
| Quote: statistical quality control is useful for software development [»choCK_1987]
| | Quote: Cleanroom development with statistical quality control, mathematical verification, no unit debugging, incremental development, change control
| | Quote: under Cleanroom, high quality code rapidly becomes error free; expect defect free within a day or two of first execution [»lingRC10_1988]
| | Quote: Cleanroom develops software incrementally with statistical quality control; if too many errors then improve process [»millHD9_1987]
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Subtopic: manufactoring quality control
| Quote: Sears established hundreds of new manufacturers in other countries, and it insisted on standards of workmanship, quality, delivery [»drucPF1_1958]
| | Quote: market leaders obtain higher prices and sell significantly higher-quality products and services [»buzzRD1_1975]
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Subtopic: randomized testing
| Quote: wonglediff identifies numeric instability by running a program multiple times while randomly changing the floating-point rounding mode [»eggePR4_2005]
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Subtopic: difference report
| Quote: wonglediff uses numdiff to produce an HTML report that highlights the numeric differences [»eggePR4_2005]
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Subtopic: review
| Quote: program reviews improve quality, educate new programmers, provide overall view, and assist management review [»kralTM5_1975, OK]
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Subtopic: reliable source
| Quote: can ensure quality of a entity by getting it from a reliable source or seeing the trademark of a reliable source [»maclBJ12_1983]
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Subtopic: formal methods
| Quote: more reliable elevator scheduler from formal methods than informal analysis; style also better; study using 20 teams [»sobeAE3_2002]
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Subtopic: checking code
| Quote: before running a sequence tape, manually simulate the computation on a degenerate case or initial point; compare intermediate and final results with the actual computation [»compHU_1946]
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Subtopic: information quality
| Quote: there should be provisions for evaluating the information stored in a system [»sterTD11_1974]
| | Quote: electronic data publishing can revise or correct data after publication; difficult in print media [»cinkMJ5_1991]
| | Quote: GenBank checks sequence data far more extensively then reviewers do; many automatic checks [»cinkMJ5_1991]
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Subtopic: subjective quality
| Quote: subjective quality is deciding what to build; must have a baseline, want more of linear elements, and excited by features [»cockA3_2008]
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Subtopic: quality not needed
| Quote: many jobs are not worth doing right; e.g., agonizing over word choice in a shopping list [»bentJ2_1986]
| | Quote: good enough quality where benefits exceed cost of use; including compensating for defects [»armoP11_2002]
| Quote: quantified quality requirements are not important; projects succeed or fail because of weak sponsors, isolation, poor leadership, sloppy design, sloppy testing
[»cockA3_2008]
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Related Topics
Group: organizations (19 topics, 439 quotes)
Group: software maintenance (14 topics, 368 quotes)
Group: testing (18 topics, 557 quotes)
Topic: bugs (66 items)
Topic: Cleanroom software development (38 items)
Topic: consistency testing (60 items)
Topic: design errors (15 items)
Topic: software change management (48 items)
Topic: software management (28 items)
Topic: software metrics (32 items)
Topic: software review (80 items)
Topic: specification errors (10 items)
Topic: statistical testing based on a usage profile (27 items)
Topic: test scripts (13 items)
Topic: testing testing (13 items)
Topic: usability errors
(6 items)
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