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A Quality Framework for Software Development (QFSD)
thesis
posted on 2018-11-16, 09:27 authored by William P. O'NeillINTRODUCTION. This research delivers a new complete and prescriptive software development
framework, known as the Quality Framework for Software Development
(QFSD) for immediate use by software development practitioners. Whilst there
are a number of existing methodologies available, and many software
development standards they fail to address the complete development lifecycle.
A review of current literature supports this assertion.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES. The overall aim of the research is to create a new software development
framework, applying it to a substantial number of real-world software projects in
two different industrial software development environments and thereby
demonstrating its effectiveness.
METHODS. Based on a review of the available research approaches and strategies, the
researcher selected 'pragmatism' as the most suitable for this research. This
selection was driven by two contributory factors. The first was that in order to
conduct the research the researcher would have active participation in the
majority of the research activities. The second was that the deliverables from the
research should be immediately useable for the benefit of software practitioners
and hence not be regarded as a theoretical framework. The approach was
further refined by adopting Action Research and Case Study strategies. The
research was divided in to stages each of which was executed within separate
companies. The companies were very different in terms of their business areas,
culture and views on quality and specifically quality of software deliverables.
RESULTS. The research findings provided a strong indication that a holistic software
development framework does provide an improvement in software project
deliverables quality and repeatability in terms of schedules and quality. In the
case of Fisher–Rosemount it enabled them to attain ISO 9000/Ticket
accreditation. In addition, by providing all processes and tools in a single web
based environment the adoption by software developers, project managers and
senior management was very high.
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Publisher
© William Peter O'NeillPublisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2010Notes
A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Loughborough University.Language
- en