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Download or read book Software Excellence written by Shigeichi Moriguchi and published by Productivity Press. This book was released on 1997-02-01 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to the great success of the QC movement, quality assurance has taken root in the earliest stages of technology development. Software Excellence addresses the assumption that software cannot be built without bugs. The author argues that the application of total quality principles and tools to software development will eliminate the lengthy and costly step of debugging that has become an accepted phase of software development. Table of Contents Publisher's Message Preface Editor's Foreword--Tadashi Yoshizawa Editor's Foreword--Motohiro Higashi List of Editors and Authors PART 1 -- QUALITY CONTROL METHODOLOGY Chapter One: High-Quality Software Chapter Two: Total Quality Management (TQM) Chapter Three: Methods of Quality Control (QC) PART 2 -- QUALITY PROCESSES APPLIED TO SOFTWARE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT Chapter Four: Software Quality Control and Small-Group Activities in Software Chapter Five: High-Reliability Software Chapter Six: Software Development and Modularization Chapter Seven: Software Documentation Chapter Eight: Software Engineering Chapter Nine: Change Management Chapter Ten: Quality Improvement in Reuse Chapter Eleven: Quality Function Deployment for Software Development Chapter Twelve: Examples of Quality Measurement Systems Chapter Thirteen: Methods for Quantitative Measurement and Evaluation of Quality Chapter Fourteen: Production Planning for Software Products Chapter Fifteen: Software Technology Management Chapter Sixteen: Quality Design and Management Planning Chapter Seventeen: Review and Process-Specific Management Chapter Eighteen: Test Management and Audits Chapter Nineteen: Maintenance Management Glossary of Acronyms Index