Engineering Quality Software: A Review of Current Practices, Standards and Guidelines including New Methods and Development Tools

by D.J. Smith, K.B. Wood

Overview

During the 18 months since the publication of the 1st edition the practice of software quality and the availability of tools and guidance for its implementation has increased dramatically. The emphasis on the need for formal methods has increased and calls for certification of safety critical software are now common. In particular this 2nd edition: -Expands the treatment of static analysis and includes a comprehensive but simple example in order to illustrate clearly the functions of each analyser in Chapter 8. -Describes formal requirements languages more fully in Chapter 6. -Updates the compendium of available guidelines and standards in Chapter 5. -Expands the description of the many high level languages in Chapter 9. -Improves and expands the exercise into a 49 page case study consisting of a documentation hierarchy for a safety system in Chapter 14. It is seeded with deliberate errors and ambiguities and now includes guidance in finding them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789401069960
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	10/04/2011
Edition description:	Second Edition 1989
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	5.63(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

David J. Smith, past Chairman of the Safety and Reliability Society is the author of six successful works on reliability, quality, software and statistics. He has been directly associated with this branch of engineering, in the process and telecommunications industries, for over 20 years and is well known for his courses and workshops on these subjects. He currently runs his own consultancy.

Table of Contents

1. The Background to Software Engineering and Quality.- 1 The Meaning of Quality in Software.- 2 Software Failures—Causes and Hazards.- 3 The Effect of the Software Life-cycle on Quality.- 2. Current Quality Systems and Software Standards.- 4 The Traditional Approach to Software Quality.- 5 Current Standards and Guidelines.- 3. Software Quality Engineering—an Ideal Approach.- 6 An Engineering Approach to Defining Requirements.- 7 Putting Design into an Engineering Context.- 8 A Structured Approach to Static and Dynamic Testing.- 9 Languages and Their Importance.- 10 Aspects of Fault Tolerance in Software Design.- 4. New Management For Software Design.- 11 Software Project Management.- 12 Quality—can it be Measured?.- 13 The Role of the Software Engineer.- 5. Exercise.- 14 Software System Design Exercise—Addressable Detection System.- Checklist Application Chart.- Glossary of Terms.- A Terms Connected with Failure.- B Terms Connected with Software.- C Terms Connected with Software Systems and their Hardware.- D Terms Connected with Procedures, Management and Documents.- E Terms Connected with Test.- F Common Abbreviations.- 1 British Standards.- 2 UK Defence Standards.- 3 US Standards.- 4 Other Standards and Guidelines.- 5 Books.