How optimistic sHould we be about the profession of software engineering and our current ability to credibly deliver quality systems within expected cost and schedule? In this issue, you’ll find a selection of articles that cover recent research on software quality assurance, all of which go beyond the “traditional” verification and validation (V&V) toolkit to look at recent advances focused sq...

Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA)-derived data was used to develop parsimonious model(s) for fuel consumption on a Boeing 757 airplane using regression analysis. Using the model(s), it should be possible to identify outliers (specific flights) with respect to fuel consumption, which will enable the air carrier to investigate the cause of excessive fuel consumption and remedy the proble...

This paper demonstrates the difference between theoretical quality design and practical quality issues and problems, as these were documented for a typical software project. The aim of this paper is to share with readers conclusions based on over ten years of experience in software projects management and research in the field of software quality assurance by presenting simple issues related to...

Concepts of quality and methods of measurement appropriate to commercial settings have been applied to higher education without adequate consideration of their applicability. One result has been inconsistency between the desired outcomes of quality assurance, explicit philosophical choices about the concept of quality and the choice of methods to demonstrate quality. Within the commercial conte...

The paradigm of model-based software development has become more and more popular, since it promises an increase in the efficiency and quality of software development. Following this paradigm, models become primary artifacts in the software development process where quality assurance of the overall software product considerably relies on the quality assurance of involved software models. In thi...

Software quafity assurance (QA) is a critical function in the successful development and maintenance of software systems. Because the QA activity adds significantly to the cost of developing software, the cost-effectiveness of QA has been a pressing concern to software quality managers. As of yet, though, this concern has not been adequately addressed in the fiterature. The objective of this ar...

Health Care has traditionally been dominated by a strong professional culture, to which information and communications technology has not maybe fitted in the optimal way. Currently, however, strong currents are changing the intellectual climate in the field. Modern information and communications technology is being taken into usage in the Health Care sector at an increasing pace. This article p...

The HIFSuite ia a set of tools and APIs that provide support for modelling and verification of HW/SW systems by allowing manipulation and integration of HDL heterogeneous descriptions.