3. Software engineering life cycle
Software is a complex whole, and its development requires a diversity of activities. An effective technique for controlling the complexity of a whole is to subdivide it into several parts, to make it controllable. It is therefore essential to structure the approach to software quality. What's more, representing the real world involves abstraction, which leads to the use of a model. Thus, modeling or reducing the real world, introduces the notion of successive activities, hence the concept of "life cycle". Modeling is convenient and doubly useful. It provides a logical, graphical representation and, what's more, it offers a structure around which quality assurance activities can be built and monitored.
The life of a software or information system is broken down into characteristic phases representing homogeneous sets of activities that need to be placed under quality...
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Software tools
Audit Diagnostic Evaluation System (ADES). This tool manages several standard or customized normative reference grids. It enables audit/evaluation findings to be entered into a database, and improvement actions to be recorded. It then reports on the audit/assessment findings recorded in the database. Comparisons between two audits/assessments enable improvements to be assessed. A slideshow presenting the functionalities...
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International standards on quality management and quality assurance
- Quality management systems – Basic principles and vocabulary - ISO 9000 - 2005
- Quality management systems – Requirements - ISO 9001 - 2008
- Quality management systems – Performance improvement guidelines - ISO 9004 - 2009
- Environmental management systems – Specifications and operating instructions - ISO 14001 - 2004 ...
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