In software development - even in quality assurance - many decisions are still made instinctively. Lack of transparency, however, makes these decisions difficult to communicate and error-prone. A better solution would be to make decisions that are logical and comprehensible, which are based on facts. These decisions are not only simpler to communicate, but also reduce the frequency of wrong decisions. This, however, requires significant data about the software quality and its influencing factors, which, in turn, requires a measurement-based software quality assurance. In the past, many attempts were undertaken to initiate adequate measuring systems to collect significant data. Many of these attempts failed due to non-acceptance by the users, owing to the obvious disproportion of effort and benefit. The present article outlines the basic approaches at Bosch Diesel Systems (DS) to adapt the available measuring system to the rising demands on software quality assurance. An important aspect to be particularly considered is that of acceptance. With specially considering the aspects of dynamics and learning, the special customer-oriented software development is born in mind. Furthermore, the measuring system must provide proof of its ability and applicability before its final implementation. For this purpose, experiments are performed in a pilot environment. The aim is to develop and test an approach for the improvement of the existing measuring system, which is accepted by the users and will help in the software quality assurance to move to objective decisions.
An approach for the further development of the measuring system for the software quality assurance of bosch diesel systems
Ein Versuch der weiteren Entwicklung des Metrik-Systems für die Software-Qualitätssicherung bei Bosch-Diesel-Systems
Investigations in Software Measurement, International Workshop on Software Measurement, 13 ; 144-158
2003
15 Seiten, 3 Bilder, 12 Quellen
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
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