Content rich resources for software quality information.
SEI Personal Software Process (PSP) (6)
- The PSP is an Software Engineering Institute (SEI) technology that brings discipline to the practices of individual software engineers, dramatically improving the quality, predictability, and cycle time for software-intensive systems.
American Society for Quality, Software Division - This Web site of ASQ's Software Division is a complete resource for software quality engineers. It includes information on ASQ's certified software quality engineer exam, articles, links to presentations and papers from previous International Conferences on Software Quality and scores of links to other sites of interest. The division's Metrics, Measurements and Analytical Methods Committee has a special section.
Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) - Provided by Dept of Industrial Engineering, Clemson University, this service is provided in support of world-wide efforts in quality improvement and education in quality. Most files in this server may be freely distributed.
Model Based Testing - This document, developed in 2004 for the DACS Gold practice Initiative, and is available for download in PDF format. Definition and Summary: Model-Based Testing is the automatic generation of efficient test procedures/vectors using models of system requirements and specified functionality.
QA Forums - popular Software Testing and Quality Assurance discussions site. With over 50 forums that cover almost every area in software testing, quality assurance and quality engineering. Here, you will also find a forum for every software test tool available.
Quality America - Founded in 1983, Quality America offers Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Document Control software, as well as ASQ Certification materials, SPC Training, and Six Sigma software, training, and consulting.
Quality Assurance Institute - The Quality Assurance Institute home page provides information about an international organization of member companies searching for effective methods for detection software quality control and prevention software quality assurance.
Software Engineering Process Management Program - The Software Engineering Process Management (SEPM) Program researches and develops management products and services that help organizations worldwide continuously improve the performance of their processes in the areas of product and service development, maintenance, and acquisition.
Software Quality Assurance - This page is a gathering place for references related to the theory and practice of Software Quality Assurance. It is growing to include information on: Standards and Development Procedures, Product Evaluation and Process Monitoring, Configuration Management Monitoring, The Role of SQA in the Product Development Cycle, and Automated Testing Tools.
SPICE: Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination - SPICE is a major international initiative to support the development of an International Standard for Software Process Assessment. The project has three principal goals: to develop a working draft for a standard for software process assessment; to conduct industry trials of the emerging standard; and to promote the technology transfer of software process assessment into the software industry world-wide.
SR/Institute's Software Quality Hotlist - SR/Institute maintains this list of links to selected organizations and institutions which support the software quality and software testing area. Organizations and other references are classified by type, by geographic area, and then in alphabetic order within each geographic area. This information rich site provides access to a broad range of software quality and testing resources.
Tantara's Software Process Improvement (SPI) and Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Hotlist - Tantara provides a collection of Software Process Improvement (SPI) and software quality resources. The site includes links to SPI resources, focus groups, SQA resources, SPINs, online newsletters and e-journals, magazines,associations, seminal documents, discussion groups, and governing agents for standards/models.
TickIT: Software Quality Systems -- A Special Case? - TickIT is a scheme for the certification of quality management systems which conform to the requirements of the ISO 9001 Standard and has been specifically designed for the software development sector. A companion article outlines the purpose and aims of TickIT, and explains the advantages of TickIT certification.
WhatIsTesting.com - A Tester's Paradise - www.WhatIsTesting.com is a NON-PROFIT site, dedicated to cause of software testing. Run entirely on a voluntary basis by testers, we will endeavor to provide testing related articles, tutorials, templates, tools and other related information on this site. Visitors are encouraged to review tools, books and websites.
DACS Gold Practice Initiative
