Quality Improvement in "Heroic" Projects A reasonable activity model for quality enhancement for medium-sized "chaotic" software development projects

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  • Stefan Biffl
  • Greg Thomas
چکیده

A substantial part of actual practical software engineering (SE) work is performed in a chaotic way according to the famous SEI classification. This paper deals with chaotic projects which nevertheless succeed, labeling them "heroic" projects. Example scenarios from industrial practice explain why any serious amount of development work will always be heroic. A first-aid approach to quality assurance (QA) for heroic projects, AQUAM, is presented, which allows assurance of a minimum level of quality and cannot be ignored by even the most theory-ascetic practitioners.

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تاریخ انتشار 1997