Some practical experience with a software quality assurance program

  • Authors:
  • G. G. Gustafson;Roberta J. Kerr

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Sciences Corp., Ridgecrest, CA;Computer Sciences Corp., San Diego, CA

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1982

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Abstract

Within a production programming environment, a software quality assurance program (QAP) was instituted to produce standards, conventions, and methodologies for all phases of the software development process. Software language standards and several support processors, in turn, developed. The authors offer a plan which may help others avoid some of the pitfalls they experienced while attempting to construct a meaningful software QAP.