Quality What's the definition and how do you measure and improve it.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 00:40:03
Category: / Science & Technology / Engineering
Length: 14 pages (3803 words)
Category: / Science & Technology / Engineering
Length: 14 pages (3803 words)
Introduction
<Tab/>The word 'quality' can be defined in many ways. Gerald Weinberg, author of Quality Software Management, offers a general definition: Quality means "value to some person." Lee Thomas, Technical Services Specialist for Rational Software, attempts to expand this definition to define quality as "value to some group of people over some period of time". Lee's expansion to include to time is based on his reasoning that the value of …
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