Huizinga / Kolawa Automated Defect Prevention

Best Practices in Software Management
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-16516-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 454 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley - IEEE

This book describes an approach to software management based onestablishing an infrastructure that serves as the foundation forthe project. This infrastructure defines people roles, necessarytechnology, and interactions between people and technology. Thisinfrastructure automates repetitive tasks, organizes projectactivities, tracks project status, and seamlessly collects projectdata to provide measures necessary for decision making. Mostimportantly, this infrastructure sustains and facilitates theimprovement of human-defined processes.

The methodology described in the book, which is called AutomatedDefect Prevention (ADP) stands out from the current softwarelandscape as a result of two unique features: its comprehensiveapproach to defect prevention, and its far-reaching emphasis onautomation. ADP is a practical and thorough guide to implementingand managing software projects and processes. It is a set of bestpractices for software management through process improvement,which is achieved by the gradual automation of repetitive taskssupported and sustained by this flexible and adaptableinfrastructure, an infrastructure that essentially forms asoftware production line.

In defining the technology infrastructure, ADP describesnecessary features rather than specific tools, thus remainingvendor neutral. Only a basic subset of features thatare essential for building an effective infrastructure has beenselected. Many existing commercial and non-commercial tools supportthese, as well as more advanced features. Appendix E contains sucha list.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huizinga, Dorota

Kolawa, Adam

Über Autor(innen)

Dorota Huizinga, PhD, is the Associate Dean for the College ofEngineering and Computer Science and Professor of Computer Scienceat California State University, Fullerton. Her publication recordspans a wide range of computer science disciplines and her researchwas sponsored by the National Science Foundation, California StateUniversity System, and private industry.
Adam Kolawa, PhD, is the cofounder and CEO of Parasoft, aleading provider of Automated Error Prevention software solutions.Dr. Kolawa is a coauthor of Bulletproofing Web Applications, hascontributed to or written more than 100 commentary pieces andtechnical papers, and has authored numerous scientific papers.