Producers and consumers views of software quality (Panel Session)

Abstract

At this very ACM workshop/symposium indicates, software quality is of great concern to both producers and users of software. It should be obvious to those who have attended the earlier sessions today and to those who will attend the sessions tomorrow that quality is something that cannot be tested into a system or added to a system. It must be integral from the start of the definition of the system's requirements through each phase of analysis, design, implementation, integration, testing, and installation. Software quality implies an engineering type approach to the development of software. It implies the use of a disciplined development environment, and the use of tools and techniques to provide assurances throughout the software development process that both the software and its baseline specifications are complete, consistent, and traceable from one to another.