Can Software Quality Be Measured?
With customer stakeholders complaining about the the quality of software being delivered, the challenge in front of delivery/project manager was to find a way in which software quality can be measured. Before going into how can the software quality be measured, one needs to understand why at all the software quality need to be measured? The need to measure software quality has arisen due to following: Customer:Customer stakeholders needed a ways and means to ensure that software delivered to them by partner vendors are of high quality. Software Service Providers: Stakeholders such as software developers needed to be governed on regular basis to ensure consistent & predictable delivery of high …
Software Quality & Varied Perceptions
As part of software quality workshops that I have been taking recently, I asked various attendees about how would they define “Software Quality”. It was found that everybody gave different answers on this, and most of them could said to be partially correct. What did the trainees (primarily, software developers) say? Following were some of the common answers: It is about how fast a software screen loads? Is the software secured enough? There should be as minimum defects as possible? If one looks above, they belong to following characteristics of a software product: Efficiency Security Functionality While interacting with end customers which primarily included the developers and team leads/scrum masters, …
I found it very helpful. However the differences are not too understandable for me