Software Quality Assurance: Consistency in the Face of Complexity and Change (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science)
暫譯: 軟體品質保證:在複雜與變化中保持一致性(計算機科學本科主題)

Neil Walkinshaw

  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2017-08-04
  • 售價: $2,600
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$2,470
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 181
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 3319648217
  • ISBN-13: 9783319648217
  • 相關分類: Computer-Science
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商品描述

This textbook offers undergraduate students an introduction to the main principles and some of the most popular techniques that constitute ‘software quality assurance’. The book seeks to engage students by placing an emphasis on the underlying foundations of modern quality-assurance techniques , using these to highlight why techniques work, as opposed to merely focussing on how they work. In doing so it provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of where software quality fits into the development lifecycle (spoiler: everywhere), and what the key quality assurance activities are.

The book focuses on quality assurance in a way that typical, more generic software engineering reference books do not. It is structured so that it can (and should) be read from cover to cover throughout the course of a typical university module. Specifically, it is

  • Concise: it is small enough to be readable in its entirety over the course of a typical software engineering module.
  • Explanatory:  topics are discussed not merely in terms of what they are, but also why they are the way they are – what events, technologies, and individuals or organisations helped to shape them into what they are now.
  • Applied: topics are covered with a view to giving the reader a good idea of how they can be applied in practice, and by pointing, where possible, to evidence of their efficacy.
The book starts from some of the most general notions (e.g. quality and development process), and gradually homes-in on the more specific activities, assuming knowledge of the basic notions established in prior chapters. Each chapter concludes with a “Key Points” section, summarising the main issues that have been covered in the chapter. Throughout the book there are exercises that serve to remind readers of relevant parts in the book that have been covered previously, and give them the opportunity to reflect on a particular topic and refer to related references.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本教科書為大學本科生提供了對「軟體品質保證」的主要原則和一些最受歡迎技術的介紹。該書旨在通過強調現代品質保證技術的基本基礎來吸引學生,並利用這些基礎來突顯技術為什麼有效,而不僅僅是關注它們如何運作。這樣做使讀者能夠全面理解軟體品質在開發生命週期中的位置(劇透:無處不在),以及關鍵的品質保證活動是什麼。

本書以一種典型的、更通用的軟體工程參考書所不具備的方式專注於品質保證。它的結構設計使其可以(並且應該)在典型的大學課程中從頭到尾閱讀。具體來說,它是:

- 簡潔:它的篇幅足夠小,可以在典型的軟體工程模組中完整閱讀。

- 解釋性:主題不僅僅是討論它們是什麼,還包括為什麼它們是這樣的——哪些事件、技術以及個人或組織幫助塑造了它們現在的樣子。

- 應用性:主題的討論旨在讓讀者對如何在實踐中應用這些主題有良好的理解,並在可能的情況下指出其有效性的證據。

本書從一些最一般的概念(例如品質和開發過程)開始,逐漸聚焦於更具體的活動,假設讀者已具備前幾章所建立的基本概念。每一章的結尾都有一個「關鍵要點」部分,總結了該章所涵蓋的主要問題。在整本書中,還有練習題,旨在提醒讀者回顧之前所涵蓋的相關部分,並給他們機會反思特定主題並參考相關文獻。