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Software Quality Engineering Lec 6

This document discusses software quality engineering (SQE). It outlines the key SQE activities like pre-QA planning, QA, and post-QA analysis and feedback. These activities fit within software processes like waterfall. SQE effort varies over a project, with more effort early in planning and late in analysis, and peak QA effort in the middle. The next lecture will cover additional aspects of SQE.

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Software Quality Engineering Lec 6

This document discusses software quality engineering (SQE). It outlines the key SQE activities like pre-QA planning, QA, and post-QA analysis and feedback. These activities fit within software processes like waterfall. SQE effort varies over a project, with more effort early in planning and late in analysis, and peak QA effort in the middle. The next lecture will cover additional aspects of SQE.

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Software Quality

Engineering
Lecture No. 6
Part- 1
Overview and Basics
Summary of the previous lecture
 QA to SQE
 Key SQE Activities
 V & V model
 SQE in Software Process
Outlines
 SQE: Software Quality Engineering
 Key SQE Activities
 SQE in Software Process
Objectives

 To understand SQE in software process

 To understand and distinguish between SQE activities


QA to SQE
 QA activities need additional support:
Planning and goal setting
Management:

– – when to stop?
– – adjustment and improvement, etc.
– – all based on assessments/predictions
 Assessment of quality/reliability/etc.:
Data collection needed
Analysis and modeling
Providing feedback for management
 QA + above ⇒ software quality engineering (SQE)
SQE Process

Quality Engineering Process


SQE Process

SQE process to link major SQE activities:


Pre-QA planning;
QA: covered previously (Lecture 4 and 5);
Post-QA analysis and feedback
(maybe parallel instead of “post-”)
SQE and QIP
 QIP (quality improvement paradigm):
Step 1: understand baseline
Step 2: change then assess impact
Step 3: package for improvement
SQE and QIP
 QIP support:
overall support: experience factory
measurement/analysis: GQM (goal-question-metric
paradigm)
 SQE as expanding QA to include QIP ideas
Pre-QA Planning
 Pre-QA planning:
Quality goal
Overall QA strategy:
QA activities to perform?
measurement/feedback planning
 Setting quality goal(s):
Identify quality views/attributes
Select direct quality measurements
Assess quality expectations vs. cost
Setting Quality Goals
 Identify quality views/attributes
 customer/user expectations,
 market condition,
 product type, etc.
 Select direct quality measurements
 direct: reliability
 defect-based measurement
 other measurements
 Assess quality expectations vs. cost
 cost-of-quality/defect studies
 economic models: COCOMO etc
Forming QA Strategy
 QA activity planning
evaluate individual QA alternatives
 strength/weakness/cost/applicability/etc.
match against goals
integration/cost considerations
 Measurement/feedback planning:
define measurements (defect & others)
planning to collect data
preliminary choices of models/analyses
feedback & follow-up mechanisms, etc.
Measurement Analysis and Feedback
 Measurement:
defectmeasurement as part of defect handling
process
other data and historical baselines
 Analyses: quality/other models
input: above data
output/goal: feedback and follow-up
focus on defect/risk/reliability analyses
 Feedback and follow-up:
frequent feedback: assessments/predictions
possible improvement areas
project management and improvement
SQE in Software Processes
 SQE activities ⊂ development activities:
 quality planning ⊂ product planning
 QA activities ⊂ development activities
 analysis/feedback ⊂ project management
 Fitting SQE in software processes:
 different start/end time
 different sets of activities, sub-activities, and
focuses
 In waterfall process: more staged (planning,
execution, analysis/feedback)
 In other processes: more iterative or other
variations
Quality engineering in the waterfall process
Quality engineering in the waterfall
process
SQE Effort Profile

 QE activity/effort distribution/dynamics:
different focus in different phases
different levels (qualitatively)
different build-up/wind-down patterns
impact of product release deadline (deadline-
driven activities)
 planning: front heavy
 QA: activity mix (early vs. late; peak variability?
deadline?)
 analysis/feedback: tail heavy (often deadline-driven or
decision-driven)
SQE Effort in Waterfall Process

Quality engineering effort profile: The share of different activities as


part of the total effort
SQE Effort in Waterfall Process
 Effort profile
 planning/QA/analysis of total effort
 general shape/pattern only (actually data would not be
as smooth)
 in other processes: – similar but more evenly distributed
Summary of Today’s Lecture
 In today’s lecture, we explored Key SQE Activities
 We also discussed SQE in Software Process such as
waterfall
Overview of Next lecture
 We will move to the last lecture of Part-I
 We will explore some more expects that leads to or are
helpful in SQE
The End

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