This book will provide a broad view of software quality assurance (SQA) issues, including SQA pre-project activities, SQA activities during software development processes, SQA infrastructure such as quality assurance procedures, staff training, corrective actions and configuration control. Other parts of the book will deal with software quality management issues, like software quality metrics, software quality costs, project progress control, and organizational topics related to SQA. The role of software development standards in the development process and in software quality management is...