This paper addresses the transformation of traditional software quality control techniques to a proactive quality assurance program within embedded systems and other mission critical software: Software plays an increasingly important role in every product and organization. The number of mission critical applications, those with a high cost of failure (air traffic control systems and other life ...

FEED manufacturers are often forced by circumstances to focus on short-term concerns such as: How many tons were produced this week? How many customers do I have, or how much down time did I have this week? While important, short-term problems can cause manufacturers to focus on solving problems rather than pursuing the company’s mission. Manufacturers who regularly examine their company’s miss...

This section of the guideline discusses procedures and best practices around quality control and quality assurance. In developing this section of the guideline we reviewed available literature and best practice; consulted with registry and disease experts; and derived consensus recommendations. Quality, as defined by the International Standards Organization (ISO) in standard ISO 8402:1994, is t...

Frameworks have fundamental impact on software quality of robot control systems. We propose systematic framework design aiming at high levels of support for all quality attributes that are relevant in the robotics domain. Design decisions are taken accordingly. We argue that certain areas of design are especially critical, as changing decisions there would likely require rewriting significant p...

Continuous Integration (CI) environments cope with the repeated integration of source code changes and provide rapid feedback about the status of a software project. However, as the integration cycles become shorter, the amount of data increases, and the effort to find information in statically composed CI dashboards becomes substantial. We want to address the shortcoming of static views with a...