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Introduction to Quality

Introduction to Quality. Imran Hussain. Project Development Costs. Around 63% of software projects exceed their cost estimates. The top four reasons for this are: Frequent requests for changes from users Overlooked tasks Users' lack of understanding of their own requirements

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Introduction to Quality

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  1. Introduction to Quality Imran Hussain

  2. Project Development Costs • Around 63% of software projects exceed their cost estimates. The top four reasons for this are: • Frequent requests for changes from users • Overlooked tasks • Users' lack of understanding of their own requirements • Insufficient user-analyst communication and understanding (Communications of the ACM)

  3. Finding Information • Users can only find information 42% of the time (Jared Spool)

  4. Finding Items • 62% of web shoppers give up looking for the item they want to buy online (Zona Research)

  5. Lost Sales • 50% of the potential sales from a site are lost because people cannot find the item they are looking for (Forrester Research)

  6. Software Maintenance Costs • 80% of software lifecycle costs occur after the product is released, in the maintenance phase - of that work, 80 % is due to unmet or unforeseen user requirements; only 20 % is due to bugs or reliability problems. (IEEE Software)

  7. What is Quality?

  8. Quality is conformance to specifications(British Defense Industries Quality Assurance Panel)

  9. Quality is conformance to requirements(Philip Crosby)

  10. Quality is fitness for purpose or use(Juran)

  11. Quality is a predictable degree of uniformity and dependability, at low cost and suited to the market(Edward Deming)

  12. Quality is synonymous with customer needs and expectations(R J Mortiboys)

  13. Quality is meeting the (stated) requirements of the customer- now and in the future(Mike Robinson)

  14. Quality is the total composite product and service characteristics of marketing, engineering, manufacturing and maintenance through which the product and service in use will meet the expectations by the customer(Armand Feigenbaum)

  15. Totality of characteristics of an entity that bear on its ability to satisfy stated and implied needs(ISO 8402 : 1994)

  16. What is a Product?

  17. Product • A generic term that refers to • Goods • Services • Failure to meet quality requirements in either dimension can have serious negative consequences

  18. Another definition • The extent to which a software product exhibits these characteristics • Functionality • Reliability • Usability • Efficiency • Maintainability • Portability

  19. Managing Quality

  20. Project quality management must address both the management of the project and the product of the projectPMBOK

  21. … implied needs must be turned into requirements …PMBOK

  22. What is a Grade?

  23. A category or rank given to entities having the same functional use but different technical characteristics

  24. Difference betweenQuality and Grade • Software Scenario 1 • High quality (no bugs, readable manual) • Low grade (limited number of features) • Software Scenario 2 • Low quality (many bugs, poorly organized user documentation) • High grade (numerous features)

  25. Quality Management Issues • Customer satisfaction • Conformance to requirements • Fitness for use • Prevention over inspection • Management responsibility

  26. Quality Management Issues • The application of a quality management system in managing a process to achieve maximum customer satisfaction at the lowest overall cost to the organization while continuing to improve the process

  27. Quality Management • Includes the processes required to ensure that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken • Includes all activities of the overall management function that determine the quality policy, objectives, and responsibilities

  28. Quality Management Processes • Quality Planning • Quality Assurance • Quality Control

  29. Quality Planning Quality planning involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them

  30. Quality Assurance • Quality Assurance is all the planned and systematic activities implemented within the quality system to provide confidence that the project will satisfy the relevant quality standards.

  31. Quality Control • Quality Control involves monitoring specific project results to determine if they comply with relevant quality standards, and identifying ways to eliminate causes of unsatisfactory results

  32. Prevention and Inspection • Prevention • Keeping errors out of the process • Inspection • Keeping errors put of the hands of the customer.

  33. Some Misnomers and Misconceptions • QA • Testing • SQA • QC

  34. References • PMBOK • An Introduction to Software Quality

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