Software quality improvement model for small organizations. (c2000)

Abstract

Many researchers believed that Software Process Quality improvement will certainly lead to Product Quality improvement but this certainty is not proved yet. Quality improvement process remains incomplete if it is not initiated and conducted through a wide improvement program that considers Process Quality improvement, Product Quality improvement, and evolution of human resources. In addition, small software organizations are not capable of bearing the cost of establishing software process improvement programs. In this Work, a new software quality improvement model, SQIMSO, is proposed based on three major issues. First major issue is that every improvement program should be wide enough to include the three main trends that are process quality, product quality, and human resources evolution. The second major issue is that any process quality model should answer the question "How to do " things. Third, any suggested Quality Model should be applicable enough to be implemented by Small Software Organizations saving cost and time without decreasing the quality turnover level. Based on international quality standards, models, surveys, and on Local field survey the new Software Quality Improvement Model SQIMSO is introduced.