Ch 24 – Quality Management

  • Is there a counterpart to the ISO 9001 Standards Framework for agile development?
  • Which do medium-sized software companies have more often: a separate quality management team or one integrated with the software development team?
  • Why is it better to have an independent Quality Management team when existing teams and architects know more about the project?
  • How common is using the ISO framework nowadays? The latest version seems to be ISO:9004 (2018) which you need to buy to view.
  • Are standards a reflection of the organization values? How important are the organizational quality standards, if the program runs without any defects?
  • Are members of the quality management team programmers as well?
  • Do small companies have external quality management teams or must they use other methods of quality management?
    Quality management in Agile projects often include fixing problems when you see them, even if it was made by another team member. How, then, is accountability maintained within the team, when an error you made can be fixed by another?
  • For individuals or small teams developing a product, who cannot afford a separate, non-participating Quality Manager, what is the best QM practice?
  • What is the difference between quality assurance and quality control?
  •  What is a software metric?
  • Can we see an example of a quality plan document?
  • What does it mean to deallocate storage space after it’s no longer needed?
  • Where does software standards fit into software development models?
  • Should software standards be the same for all projects under a company?
  • Are there jobs such as quality manager at software companies who don’t know code?
  • What are solutions to quality check when it comes to system implementation on a computer?
  • What is pair programming? Why is it given a lot of attention in developing software?
  • Why is it impossible to come to an objective conclusion about whether a software system meets its specification?
  • What is the difference between quality and standards?
  • Why are companies that use agile development less concerned with ISO 9001 standards?
  • Ideally would you continue to perform quality reviews as a system is already in use to continue to perfect the system?
  • How much of the responsibility of upholding standards lies in the realm of the end user?
  • What is the difference between checking if a system is dependable and quality management? Or are they the same thing/ is one a part of the other?
  • For our purposes, what would quality management and a quality management team look like? Would independent checks of code used be necessary?
  • What is the difference between quality assurance and quality control?
  • Is software debugging also a part of quality assurance? How is debugging different from quality management?
  • Could you give examples/suggestions of software that can help programmers conform to the standards of clear documentation and incremental development?
  • What are the characteristic errors for the common programming languages like Python or C++?
  • Why is the subjective quality of a software system largely based on its non-functional characteristics?
  • Is there a body that governs the definition of software standards?
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