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How do we define Quality?

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Topic: How do we define Quality?
Posted By: tanushree
Subject: How do we define Quality?
Date Posted: 15Oct2007 at 3:04am
How do we define Quality?
Conformance to explicitly state functional and performance requirements explicitly documented development standards, and implicit characteristics that are expected of all professionally developed software.

The above definition emphasizes three important points.

1.   Software requirements are the foundation from which quality is measured. Lack of conformance to requirements is lack of quality.
2.   Specified standards define a set of development criteria that guide the manner in which software is engineered. If the criteria are not followed, lack of quality will almost surely result.
3.   There is a set of implicit requirements often goes unmentioned. (E.g. the desire of good maintainability). If software confo



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