Software Verification and Validation: A Practitioner's Guide

  • Authors:
  • Steven R. Rakitin

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Software Verification and Validation: A Practitioner's Guide
  • Year:
  • 1997

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From the Publisher:If you're a software quality professional, but lack formal training in software quality assurance, this practical reference will fill in the gaps. Based on the principles of continuous process improvement, this book offers practical solutions for performing verification and validation tasks throughout the entire software development life cycle. This logically organized book supplies common-sense techniques and up-to-date information that helps your organization produce higher quality software. You learn, for example: 聲 The pros and cons of various software development lifecycle models 聲 The software inspection process and how to apply it 聲 The fundamentals of configuration management 聲 Methods for improving the effectiveness of testing 聲 Techniques for applying measurements to V&V activities 聲 The basics of using software reliability growth modeling Focused on practical solutions rather than theory, this book provides models of written processes for software development and inspection along with outlines of several software related documents. Adding to its value as a hands-on reference, the book also includes an extensive collection of appendices including a model of a written process for software development, along with outlines of software-related documents. A process for conducting software inspections is also provided along with example checklists which can be used to conduct requirements, design, code (C and C++), and test inspections. Software Verification and Validation: A Practitioner's Guide is a practical reference for software quality professionals, project managers and engineers who are responsiblefor quality assurance, and can be used as a basic text for introductory undergraduate courses.