Quality of Software Systems Engineering

As organizations become more and more concerned with Total Quality Management and with evaluation of returns on investments made in IT, quality assurance in systems engineering has become a major issue. Controlling the quality of software produced by manufacturers can be difficult, especially in the early stages of the system life cycle where quality is often not sufficiently assured. Addressing how product and process quality can be assured in all stages of the system life cycle, this work covers topics including: software practises; quality models and frameworks; and the implementation of new methods and tools for system engineering and project management. This book should be of interest to researchers, managers, engineers and libraries in the fields of project management and systems engineering.