Software Quality Assurance Resources
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References

  • SQA - Concepts and Definitions
  • NASA Software Assurance Guidebook and Standard - NASA concept of the assurance processes that are used in software development. The SMAP-GB-A201, "Software Assurance Guidebook" provides an overall picture of the NASA concepts and practices in software assurance, and the NASA-STD-2201-93, "Software Assurance Standard" is intended as a requirement to be placed on a software provider, or as a guide for auditing of software assurance activities.
  • SEI Interactive - From Carnegie-Mellon U. Software Engineering Institute; software process improvement and quality assurance.
  • Sample Test Plans - Sample software system test plan in HTML format, plus links to many other sample test plans or templates.
  • Software Reliability Engineering for Managers - Good introductory article on 'Software Reliability Engineering' by John Musa.
  • Organizations

  • Quality Today - For The Quality Professional
  • Quality Assurance Institute
  • Software Quality Institute
  • Society for Software Quality
  • American Society for Quality
  • ASQ Software Division
  • Australian SW Quality Research Inst.
  • OSMA Home Page
  • SATC Home Page
  • ORNL Software Quality Assurance
  • BNL Quality Assurance Manual
  • High Integrity Software System Assurance
  • Tools

  • NASA Assurance Tools and Techniques
  • BenchmarkQA
  • SQAP 1.0 Intro
  • Test Tools Supplier List - Listings and summaries of test tools, and links to their web sites.
  • Web Site Test Tools and Site Management Tools - Load and Performance Test Tools, Java Test Tools, Link Checkers, HTML Validators, Free On-the-Web HTML Validators and Link Checkers, PERL and C Programs for Validating and Checking, Web Functional/Regression Test Tools, Web Site Security Test Tools, External Site Monitoring Services, Web Site Management Tools, Other Web Test Tools.
  • Magazines, Publications

  • Software Quality Professional Magazine - Published by the American Society for Quality; web site includes table of contents and full text of selected articles.
  • Software Testing and Quality Engineering Magazine - Web site has full text of each print issue's featured article.
  • Software Testing Institute - The Online STI Resource Guide, Automated Testing Handbook, Software Testing Newsletter, Software Testing Discussion Forum
  • Software QA Magazine
  • Quality Today - For The Quality Professional
  • Recommended Books

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    Categories: Assurance | Metrics | Standards | Testing

    Software Quality Assurance

    Building Quality Software
    Robert L. Glass / Paperback / Published 1992
    C/C++ Software Quality Tools
    Mark L. Murphy / Paperback / Published 1996
    Engineering Quality Software
    Hardcover / Published 1989
    Handbook of Software Quality Assurance (Vnr Computer Library)
    G. Gordon Schulmeyer, James I. McManus (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1992
    Improving Software Quality : An Insider's Guide to TQM (Wiley Series in Software Engineering Practice)
    Lowell Jay Arthur / Hardcover / Published 1993
    Inroads to Software Quality : 'How To' Guide and Toolkit
    Alka Jarvis, et al / Hardcover / Published 1997
    Managing Quality Systems (Software Quality Management Ii, Vol 1)
    M. Ross / Hardcover / Published 1994
    Managing Software Quality
    Brian Hambling / Hardcover / Published 1996
    Practical Guide to Software Quality Management (Artech House Computer Science Library)
    John W. Horch / Hardcover / Published 1996
    Quality Assurance for Information Systems : Methods Tools, and Techniques
     William E. Perry / Hardcover / Published 1992
    Quality Management for Software
    K. Daily / Paperback / Published 1992

    Quality Resources on the Internet
              James R. Clauson / Paperback / Published 1999
    Quality Software Management (Vol. 2): First-Order Measurement
    Gerald M. Weinberg / Hardcover / Published 1993
    Quality Software Management (Vol. 4): Anticipating Change
    Gerald M. Weinberg / Hardcover / Published 1997
    Secrets of Software Quality : 40 Innovations from IBM/Book and Disk (McGraw-Hill Systems Design & Implementation)
     Craig Kaplan, et al / Hardcover / Published 1994
    Slaying the Software Dragon : A Practical Guide to Software Quality
     Gary Marliss, Mordechai Ben-Menachem / Paperback / Published 1997
    Software Assessment : Reliability, Safety, Testability
    Michael A. Friedman, Jeffrey M. Voas / Hardcover / Published 1995
    Software Inspection
    Tom Gilb, et al / Paperback / Published 1993

    Software Inspection : An Industry Best Practice
    David A. Wheeler , Bill Brykczynski, Reginald Meeson., Jr
    Software Quality : A Framework for Success in Software Development and Support
     Joc Sanders, Eugene Curran / Paperback / Published 1994
    Software Quality : Theory and Management
     Alan C. Gillies / Paperback / Published 1996
    Software Quality Assurance : Ernest Wallmuller (Bsc Practitioner)
     Ernest Wallmuller, et al / Paperback / Published 1994
    Software Quality Assurance and Measurement : Worldwide Perspective
     Norman Fenton, et al / Hardcover / Published 1996
    Software Quality Engineering : A Total Technical and Management Approach (Prentice Hall Series in Software Engineering)
     Michael S. Deutsch, Ronald R. Willis / Hardcover / Published 1988
    Software Rx : Secrets of Engineering Quality Software
     Rodney C. Wilson / Paperback / Published 1996
    Software Verification and Validation : A Practitioner's Guide (Artech Computer Science Library)
     Steven R. Rakitin / Hardcover / Published 1997

    Software Quality Metrics

    Applied Software Measurement : Assuring Productivity and Quality
     Capers Jones, T. Capers Jones / Hardcover / Published 1996
    Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering
     Stephen H. Kan / Hardcover / Published 1995
    Software Quality Assurance and Measurement : Worldwide Perspective
     Norman Fenton, et al / Hardcover / Published 1996

    Software Quality Standards

    Comparing ISO 9000, Malcolm Baldridge, and the SEI CMM for Software : A Reference and Selection Guide
     Michael O. Tingey / Hardcover / Published 1996
    An ISO 9000 Approach to Building Quality Software
     Osten Oskarsson, et al / Hardcover / Published 1995
    IEEE Guide for Software Verification and Validation Plans
    Hardcover / Published 1994
    IEEE Standard for a Software Quality Metrics Methodology/IEEE st 1061-1992
    Paperback / Published 1993

    Software Testing

    Automated Software Testing
    Elfriede Dustin, Jeff Rashka and John Paul
    IEEE Guide for Software Verification and Validation Plans
    Hardcover / Published 1994
    Software Reliability and Testing
     Hoang Pham (Editor) / Paperback / Published 1995
    Software Testing Techniques
    Boris Beizer
    Software Verification and Validation : A Practitioner's Guide (Artech Computer Science Library)
    Steven R. Rakitin / Hardcover / Published 1997
    Testing Computer Software
    Cem Kaner, Jack Falk, Hung Quoc Nguyen

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