Driving software quality at a silicon valley high-tech software company

Abstract

In today's fast-paced high-tech software application market (eg software tools that are used in the design of new computer chips), software development teams face incredible challenges to keep up with increasing cost of software maintenance, fast changes in technology complexity and time-to market pressures. Under these challenges, users of these software tools have been saying that quality issues with their software applications cost them dearly in lost productivity and in missing tight deadlines.