Software Quality Engineering

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This text offers a comprehensive approach to software quality engineering, guiding readers to master techniques for producing high-quality, reliable software, regardless of complexity. The first part introduces major topics in software quality engineering, emphasizing quality planning as an integral process. It provides a solid foundation in key concepts and practices, followed by in-depth coverage of software testing as a primary means to ensure quality. The book explores alternatives for quality assurance, including defect prevention, process improvement, inspection, formal verification, fault tolerance, safety assurance, and damage control, along with measurement and analysis to enhance quality assessment and improvement. The author’s hands-on classroom experience informs the text’s approach and style. It includes essential pedagogical tools for effective learning: figures and tables that clarify concepts, examples illustrating real-world applications, a comprehensive bibliography for further exploration of specialized topics, and problem sets at the end of each chapter to test knowledge. This text serves as an excellent resource for students in software engineering, computer science, information systems, and electrical engineering, as well as a reliable reference for software and computer professionals and engineers.