What is software 'quality'?
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Topic: What is software 'quality'?
Posted By: tanushree
Subject: What is software 'quality'?
Date Posted: 17Oct2007 at 12:43am
What is software 'quality'?
Quality
software is reasonably bug-free, delivered on time and within budget,
meets requirements and/or expectations, and is maintainable. However,
quality is obviously a subjective term. It will depend on who the
'customer' is and their overall influence in the scheme of things. A
wide-angle view of the 'customers' of a software development project
might include end-users, customer acceptance testers, customer contract
officers, customer management, the development organization's
management/accountants/testers/salespeople, future software maintenance
engineers, stockholders, magazine columnists, etc. Each type of
'customer' will have their own slant on 'quality' - the accounting
department might define quality in terms of profits while an end-user
might define quality as user-friendly and bug-free.
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