Preface

This book is aimed at software managers, executives, and quality assurance personnel who are involved in planning, estimating, executing, and maintaining software. Managers and stakeholders need to understand the economics of software quality when planning and developing new applications and enhancing or maintaining existing ones.

The goal of this book is to quantify the factors that influence software quality and provide readers with enough information for them to predict and measure quality levels of their projects and applications.

To serve this goal, we consolidate an expansive body of software quality data—data on software structural quality, software assurance processes and techniques, and the marginal costs and benefits of improving ...

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