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Quality Assurance and Testing: A Quick Guide

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The world wars required massive manufacturing initiatives that were very complex. The Aerospace Industry. The aerospace industry has quality assurance, but calls it product assurance, which works in tandem with project management and engineering to avoid catastrophic failures that have a human cost. The Software Industry.

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Without a Root Cause Analysis, No Corrective or Preventive Action is Credible - Part 1

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Root Cause is the fundamental initiating cause on a causal chain leading to a failure of a process which results in a recurrence of the problem. The causal chain of Actions and Conditions must be traced back to the initiating root cause. What Are Problem Causes of Software Projects? The outcome is not likely the root cause.

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Software Estimating Resources

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Bool, CrossLink: The Aerospace Corporation, Winter, 2000/2001, pp. Effort Estimation of Use Cases for Incremental Large-Scale Software Development,” Pareastoo Mohagheghi, Bente Anda, and Reidat Conradi, Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering. Estimating Probable System Cost,” Stephen A.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

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The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ‒ Steve McConnell. Software quality measurement,” Magne Jørgensen, Advances in Engineering Software 30 (1999) 907–912.

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Managing in Presence of Uncertainty

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Let's start with a clear and concise description of the problem of successfully managing projects in the presence of uncertainty: Accurate software cost and schedule estimations are essential for non-trivial software projects. As a software project progresses, more information about the project is known. The COCOMO 2.0

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