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Software quality: the elusive target [special issues section]

Barbara Kitchenham, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger

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If you are a software developer, manager, or maintainer, quality is often on your mind. But what do you really mean by software quality? Is your definition adequate? Is the software you produce better or worse than you would like it to be? We put software quality on trial, examining both the definition and evaluation of our software products and processes.

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Key concepts: Software quality analyst, Software quality, Computer science, Software construction, Software engineering, Verification and validation, Software quality control, Software peer review