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Re: Interesting article ZDNet re informal software development quality
From: George Capehart <gwc () acm org>
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 17:24:40 +0000
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 08:15 am, Bruce Ediger wrote: <snip>
My only beef with what both of you just said is that "quality" is sort of a catch all. It can (and does) mean different things: Fast to market Delivered on schedule Fully featured Fully documented Does not crash Meets 100% of requirements Bug free Looks very nice on-screen Runs fast Formally verified Standards compliant Followed some methodology
Bruce, I see the point you're making. I just think that, in the world of QA, that is not a valid statement. I would suggest that if you dig around a little in the QA/TQM/Six Sigma universes and in the ISO/ANSI/NIST/SEI universes you will see something different. Some sample URLs: http://www.sqa.org http://www.asqc.org http://standards.computer.org http://www.iso.org http://www.w3c.org/QA http://www.mazur.net/tqm/tqmterms.htm http://www.gstis.utexas.edu/~rpollack/tqm.html Like security, quality is a process. My favorite definition of quality is "Do it right the first time." My $0.02. Cheers, George Capehart -- George W. Capehart "If you can't describe what you're doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing." -- W. Edwards Deming
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- Interesting article ZDNet re informal software development quality Kenneth R. van Wyk (Jan 05)
- Re: Interesting article ZDNet re informal software development quality Crispin Cowan (Jan 06)
- Re: Interesting article ZDNet re informal software development quality Kenneth R. van Wyk (Jan 06)
- Re: Interesting article ZDNet re informal software development quality Crispin Cowan (Jan 06)
- Re: Interesting article ZDNet re informal software development quality George Capehart (Jan 06)
- Re: Interesting article ZDNet re informal software development quality Bruce Ediger (Jan 07)
- Re: Interesting article ZDNet re informal software development quality George Capehart (Jan 07)
- RE: Interesting article ZDNet re informal software development quality Alun Jones (Jan 07)
- Re: Interesting article ZDNet re informal software development quality Crispin Cowan (Jan 08)
- Re: Interesting article ZDNet re informal software development quality George Capehart (Jan 08)
- RE: Interesting article ZDNet re informal software development quality Alun Jones (Jan 08)
- Re: Interesting article ZDNet re informal software development quality George Capehart (Jan 08)
- Re: Interesting article ZDNet re informal software development quality Bruce Ediger (Jan 09)
- Re: Interesting article ZDNet re informal software development quality Brian Utterback (Jan 09)
- Re: Interesting article ZDNet re informal software development quality George Capehart (Jan 10)
- Re: Interesting article ZDNet re informal software development quality Kenneth R. van Wyk (Jan 06)
- Re: Interesting article ZDNet re informal software development quality Crispin Cowan (Jan 06)
- Re: Interesting article ZDNet re informal software development quality Brian Hetrick (Jan 07)
- RE: Interesting article ZDNet re informal software development quality David Crocker (Jan 06)