An integrated practical approach for efficient software quality in the software development process

Resumen

Software quality assurance activities are extremely important for producing quality software products. There are several ways to achieve the quality objectives but in general we can divide all SQA activities into two levels: a first high level where a company can apply standards like CMMI or ISO and a second lower level, where new techniques, frameworks and models can be applied in requirements, design and testing phases during a project. In the present work, we are concentrating on improving quality at this lower project level. In particular, we have worked to improve the requirement analysis in multi-cultural environments, to develop a new improved model for inspection process and to propose a new efficient method for test case generation. By integrating all three contributions, we are able to control the quality at requirements, at design (inspection) and at testing phases, allowing the coverage of the main cycle of software development.