Managing Software Quality

What should be every software organization's primary goal? Managing Software Quality. Producing and sustaining the high quality of products and processes in evolutionary systems are at the core of software engineering, and it is only through a comprehensi...

 Quality Software Project Management

Quality Software Project Management is the practical, start-to-finish project management resource for every software professional-experienced managers and developers moving into leadership roles. Drawing on best practices identified at The University of T...

 A Practical Approach to Software Quality

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the field and pragmatic guidance on the implementation of a sound quality system in the organization. It provides an enhanced knowledge of software inspections, metrics, process involvement, assessment of o...

 Data warehouse and business information quality

Each year, companies lose millions as a result of Inaccurate and missing data in their operational databases. This In turn corrupts data warehouses, causing them to fall. With Information quality Improvement and control systems, like the ones described in...

 Design for Trustworthy Software Tools, Techniques, and Methodology of Developing Robust Software

An Integrated Technology for Delivering Better Software-Cheaper and Faster! This book presents an integrated technology, Design for Trustworthy Software (DFTS), to address software quality issues upstream such that the goal of software quality becomes ...

 The Power of Ultimate Six Sigma Keki Bhote's Proven System for Moving Beyond Quality Excellence to Total Business Excellence

One of Six Sigma's founding fathers shares his trademarked process for ensuring total quality. Developed by Motorola and popularized by Jack Welch and GE, Six Sigma has been and remains today's hottest program for "zero defect" quality excellence. Now, p...

 The S60 Smartphone Quality Assurance A Guide for Mobile Engineers and Developers

S60 is the world leading smartphone platform. It has gained this position due to the huge developer base innovating on top of the S60 platform, the Product Creation Community who can provide expertise in different device program phases and tasks and the u...

 Speech Quality of VoIP Assessment and Prediction

Speech Quality of VoIP addresses speech quality of VoIP networks, whilst addressing the implications for the design of VoIP networks and systems. The book bridges the gap between the technical network-world and the (psychoacoustic) world of quality percep...

 Fundamentals of Voice Quality Engineering in Wireless Networks

Network operators are faced with the challenge of maximizing the quality of voice transmissions in wireless communications without impairing speech or data transmission. This book provides a comprehensive survey of voice quality algorithms, features, inte...

 Wi-Fi Telephony Challenges and Solutions for Voice over WLANs

Wi-Fi telephony is the latest, most cost effective, and clearest way of carrying voice data wirelessly. The great news is that it can be integrated seamlessly into the same infrastructures as currently used for computer and telephone data.The digital qual...

 Scalable Video on Demand Adaptive Internet-based Distribution

The amount of available video content has increased dramatically in the past 5 years. As this increase looks set to continue, content and service providers are looking into ways of making high-quality video available to a variety of clients, over a variet...

 Eclipse Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins - Updated for Eclipse 3.1/3.2

Eclipse has established itself as a dominant force in the application-development space. Key to the success of Eclipse is the ability of developers to extend its functionality using plug-ins. This new edition of Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plu...

 Verification and Validation for Quality of UML 2.0 Models

A practical approach to enhancing quality in software models using UML Version 2.0 "Despite its increasing usage, many companies are not taking the best advantage of UML and, occasionally, individuals have experienced frustration in applying its stan...

 TSP(SM) Leading a Development Team

Leaders of software-development projects face many challenges. First, you must produce a quality product on schedule and on budget. Second, you must foster and encourage a cohesive, motivated, and smoothly operating team. And third, you must maintain a cl...

 Digital SLR Cameras & Photography for Dummies

Walks readers through the hardware, software, and techniques needed to take top-quality digital photos with a digital SLR (single lens reflex) camera Offering more coverage than any other book on the shelf, this full-color guide presents a fun and frie...

 Process Assessment and Improvement A practical guide for managers, quality professionals and assessors

Process Assessment and Improvement: A Practical Guide For Managers, Quality Professionals and Assessors provides the reader with a powerful and practical approach to improving their organization through process assessment, combined with people factors suc...

 Digital Video Quality Vision Models and Metrics

What the eye does not see, compression gets away with Digital Video Quality presents a comprehensive introduction to vision modeling and video quality assessment. The rapid spread of digital imaging systems poses an important new challenge: optim...

 Video Communications The Whole Picture

Case studies document how, in businesses all across this country, people are communicating via videoconferences with broadcast quality reception. The authors detail how the proliferation of IP networks has driven quality improvements and cost savings in v...

  Streaming Media Bible

Create, encode, and serve professional-quality streaming media Master Real Video and Audio, Windows Media, and Apple QuickTime Optimize your streaming media architecture for blazing performance If the streaming media pros can do it, you can do...

 Succeeding with Use Cases Working Smart to Deliver Quality

Build on Use Cases to Deliver Higher-Quality, Higher-Value Software You can dramatically improve software quality and value by integrating use cases with best-practice software quality engineering disciplines. Richard Denney presents practical, co...

 Software Quality Engineering Testing, Quality Assurance, and Quantifiable Improvement

The one resource needed to create reliable software This text offers a comprehensive and integrated approach to software quality engineering. By following the author's clear guidance, readers learn how to master the techniques to produce high-quality, re...

  Corporate Software Project Management

Learn to produce quality software on time and within budget! It has long been accepted in the software industry that projects will be late, over budget, and lacking in agreed upon features due to technical or time limitations. As more companies becom...

 Archieving software quality through teamwork

Successful software depends not only on technical excellence but also on how members of the software team work together. Written in easy-to-understand language by a leading expert in the field, this groundbreaking volume provides an overview of the team c...

 ATM Signalling protocols and pactice

ATM is one of the key technologies used to support high-quality ' multimedia services. «However, high-quality features, such as scaleability, high bandwidth and quality of service have resulted in a high levet of complexity. The ATM signalling standards a...

 Text to Speech Synthesis New Paradigms and Advances

Recent advances in speech synthesis will enable the development of high-quality natural voice systems with broad application in education, business, entertainment, and medicine. Text to Speech Synthesis is the first book to comprehensively document these ...

 Developing quality technical information A handbook for writers and editors

The only technical writing guide on the market that includes visuals, before and after examples, and checklists -- straight from IBM! New edition includes more sample windows, illustrations, excerpts, and tables Actually SHOWS the writer what to do, ...

 Software Quality Assurance From theory to implementation

Software quality assurance (SQA) systems are vital for software developers in the software and the electronics industries as well as for information systems divisions in organizations. This book, based on many years of consulting and teaching experience,...

 SAP R/3 Quality Management Making It Work for Your Business

Much more than simply a guide and reference to the SAP R/3 Quality Management (QM) module, this book introduces R/3 and the principles of quality management systems alongside each other. Before getting inside the module itself, the authors describe t...

 The GIMP for Linux and Unix Visual QuickStart Guide

Learn to create professional-quality graphics with the most popular image manipulation program for Linux. Using the GIMP: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers will learn everything they need to know to create, edit, manipulate, and print professional-quality ...

 Systematic process improvement using ISO 9001:2000 and CMMI

ISO 9001 is known throughout the world as the gold standard for quality management and process improvement, but quality assurance professionals have also discovered the power of CMMISM ? the latest process improvement model from the Software Engineering I...

 Data Quality The Accuracy Dimension

Data Quality: The Accuracy Dimension is about assessing the quality of corporate data and improving its accuracy using the data profiling method. Corporate data is increasingly important as companies continue to find new ways to use it. Likewise, improvin...

 Reliability, Survivability and Quality of Large Scale Telecommunication Systems Case Study: Olympic Games

The design and implementation of large-scale telecommunication systems requires the interconnection and integration of diverse subsystems which need to provide a highly reliable system capable of offering high quality services. Over recent years, large-s...

 Reliability engineering Theory and practice

Using clear language, this book shows you how to build in, evaluate, and demonstrate reliability and availability of components, equipment, and systems. It presents the state of the art in theory and practice, and is based on the author's 30 years' experi...

 Implementing Service Quality in IP Networks

While more and more data is shifted from circuit-switched to packet-switched networks, the users of these networks expect a smooth, continuously unproblematic service (unrelated to the amount of data transported). Therefore, the reliability of a network a...

 Fundamentals of Data Warehouses

Data warehouses have captured the attention of practitioners and researchers alike. But the design and optimization of data warehouses remains an art rather than a science. This book presents the first comparative review of the state of the art and best ...

 Cisco catalyst QoS : Quality of service in campus networks

First book on deployment of QoS communication management techniques in the Campus LAN environment Gain an understanding of what QoS entails and how it can be applied in Campus LAN environments Platform-specific configuration examples demonstrate featur...

 Quality of Service Control in High-Speed Networks

Expert coverage of the state of the art in quality of service implementation Quality of Service Control in High-Speed Networks addresses the basics, theory, architectures, and technologies to implement QoS control in ATM, IP, and MPLS high-speed networks....

 Process Quality Assurance for UML-Based Projects

Software quality, by its very nature, is elusive! Add to that the ever-changing user requirements and the vagaries of software project management, and we end up with "quality" as a mere word on a distant horizon. This highly acclaimed work redresses this ...

 Uncertainty handling and quality assessment in data mining

Uncertainty Handling and Quality Assessment in Data Mining provides an introduction to the application of these concepts in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. It reviews the state-of-the-art in uncertainty handling and discusses a framework for unveilin...

 Component-Based Software Quality Methods and Techniques

Component-based software development, CBSD, is no longer just one more new paradigm in software engineering, but is effectively used in development and practice. So far, however, most of the efforts from the software engineering community have concentrate...