Engineering Quality Software

David J. Smith, past Chairman of the Safety and Reliability Society is the author of six successful works on reliability, quality, software and statistics. He has been directly associated with this branch of engineering, in the process and telecommunications industries, for over 20 years and is well known for his courses and workshops on these subjects. He currently runs his own consultancy.

1. The Background to Software Engineering and Quality.- 1 The Meaning of Quality in Software.- 2 Software Failures—Causes and Hazards.- 3 The Effect of the Software Life-cycle on Quality.- 2. Current Quality Systems and Software Standards.- 4 The Traditional Approach to Software Quality.- 5 Current Standards and Guidelines.- 3. Software Quality Engineering—an Ideal Approach.- 6 An Engineering Approach to Defining Requirements.- 7 Putting Design into an Engineering Context.- 8 A Structured Approach to Static and Dynamic Testing.- 9 Languages and Their Importance.- 10 Aspects of Fault Tolerance in Software Design.- 4. New Management For Software Design.- 11 Software Project Management.- 12 Quality—can it be Measured?.- 13 The Role of the Software Engineer.- 5. Exercise.- 14 Software System Design Exercise—Addressable Detection System.- Checklist Application Chart.- Glossary of Terms.- A Terms Connected with Failure.- B Terms Connected with Software.- C Terms Connected with Software Systems and their Hardware.- D Terms Connected with Procedures, Management and Documents.- E Terms Connected with Test.- F Common Abbreviations.- 1 British Standards.- 2 UK Defence Standards.- 3 US Standards.- 4 Other Standards and Guidelines.- 5 Books.