1 1 This is an updated version of the guidelines presented to the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA) at its meeting in September 2009 [CCSA, 2009]. It takes into account comments received from members of the CCSA and as well recent developments on quality. The aim of the document is to further support the work of the CCSA for enhanced quality assurance of statistica...

The popularity of declaring quality assurance seems to be growing significantly in the last decade, including the field of distance studies and elearning. Unfortunately, the implementation of quality assurance mechanisms on the operational level faces considerable problems. In this article we describe different conceptions of quality of distance studies, the stage of research and implementation...

Three kinds of the insurance policies for the net premium calculation for married couples are considered. The net premium equation principle is used in all premium calculations. The particular quality of the additional pension assurance is the individual form of its undertaking and the limitation of annual (monthly) pension payments. Due to this fact the biggest interest to the individual insur...

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 ...

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In order to utilize the often limited resources available for the quality assurance of a software efficiently, test managers require tools that support decision making regarding the focus of the quality assurance. One such tool is defect prediction, i.e., the prediction of the location of defects. In recent years, the prediction of defects in a target product based on data from other products, ...

The design guideline avoid dependency cycles among modules was first alluded to by Parnas in 1978. Many tools have since been built to detect cyclic dependencies among a program’s organisational units, yet we still see real applications riddled with large dependency cycles. Our solution to this problem is to proactively check for dependency cycles as a developer writes code. In this way a cycle...

The social inclusion policies are implemented in the higher education sector to provide access and opportunity for all groups of people irrespective of their social class to participate in higher education. Such policies ensure that every citizen has access to elite education which enables them to succeed and improve their life chances. The renewal of quality assurance in Australian higher educ...