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Software Quality Engineering: Ch. # 7: Integrating Quality Activities in The Project Life Cycle

This document discusses different software development methodologies and quality integration activities. It describes the classic Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) model as linear and sequential. It also outlines the prototyping model which involves user feedback, the spiral model as iterative with risk analysis and customer evaluation at each iteration, and the object-oriented model which emphasizes reuse of software components for improved quality, shorter development time, and lower costs. Finally, it defines verification as evaluating products against phase requirements, validation as evaluating against overall requirements, and qualification as determining suitability for operation.

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Software Quality Engineering: Ch. # 7: Integrating Quality Activities in The Project Life Cycle

This document discusses different software development methodologies and quality integration activities. It describes the classic Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) model as linear and sequential. It also outlines the prototyping model which involves user feedback, the spiral model as iterative with risk analysis and customer evaluation at each iteration, and the object-oriented model which emphasizes reuse of software components for improved quality, shorter development time, and lower costs. Finally, it defines verification as evaluating products against phase requirements, validation as evaluating against overall requirements, and qualification as determining suitability for operation.

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Software Quality

Engineering
Ch. # 7: Integrating quality activities in the
project life cycle
7.1 Classic and other software development
methodologies
Four models of the software development process are discussed in this
section:
• The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) model
• The prototyping model
• The spiral model
• The object-oriented model.
7.1.1 The software development life cycle (SDLC)
model
• The classic Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) model is a linear
sequential model that begins with requirements definition and ends with
regular system operation and maintenance.
7.1.2 The prototyping model

• When applying the prototyping methodology, future users of the system are
required to comment on the various versions of the software prototypes
prepared by the developers.
• Prototyping as a software development methodology has been found to be
efficient and effective mainly for small- to medium-sized software
development projects.
7.1.3 The spiral model

software development is perceived to be an iterative process; at each iteration,


the following activities are performed:
• Planning
• Risk analysis and resolution
• Engineering activities according to the stage of the project: design, coding,
testing, installation and release
• Customer evaluation, including comments, changes and additional
requirements, etc.
7.1.4 The object-oriented model

• The object-oriented model differs from the other models by its intensive
reuse of software components.
• Economy – The cost of integrating a reusable software component is much
lower than the cost of developing new components.
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• Improved quality – Used software components are expected to contain
considerably fewer defects than newly developed software components due
to detection of faults by former users.
• Shorter development time – The integration of reusable software
components reduces scheduling pressures.
7.3 Verification, validation and qualification

• “Verification – The process of evaluating a system or component to deter


mine whether the products of a given development phase satisfy the
conditions imposed at the start of that phase.”
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• “Validation – The process of evaluating a system or component during or at
the end of the development process to determine whether it satisfies
specified requirements.”
• “Qualification – The process used to determine whether a system or
component is suitable for operational use.”

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