Software quality engineering: strategy, activities and evolution

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  • Albert Tort Institut d'Estudis Catalans

Keywords:

software quality, software testing, user experience, development, performance, security.

Abstract

Software quality addresses a wide range of attributes: functional quality, user experience, security, accessibility, performance, etc. Software defects have business and social consequences. Therefore, software development projects need to define and implement a cross-cutting strategy in order to focus on activities (code analysis, testing, quality metrics, monitoring, etc.) aimed at assuring such quality attributes, depending on the risks of each application. This paper has the following goals: (1) to present the business and social value of software quality engineering; (2) to describe the main activities required to detect defects as early as possible and to provide feedback; (3) to present the continuous quality approach which should be embedded in agile software development, and (4) to reflect on the expectations and evolution of software quality.

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Author Biography

Albert Tort, Institut d'Estudis Catalans

Director tècnic (CTO) a Sogeti España, Capgemini, i coordinador del postgrau Software Quality Assurance de la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. 

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Tort, A. (2022). Software quality engineering: strategy, activities and evolution. Revista De Tecnologia, (10), 10–19. Retrieved from https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/RTEC/article/view/150080

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No. 10 (2022)

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