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PARTICULARITIES OF QUALITY EVALUATION IN A SOFTWARE COMPANY
PARTICULARITIES OF QUALITY EVALUATION IN A SOFTWARE COMPANY

Author(s): Cătălin Afrasinei
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: Management; quality management; software quality; quality evaluation; quality audit

Summary/Abstract: Quality management is a management domain very discussed and disputed nowadays and this is the first sign it is a very modern, needed and present concept in theory and practice. Some are seeing it as a solution to prepare things in the way they are needed, and the instrument which might guarantee a proper environment of keeping them in a specified and constant form. The application of quality management is a quality management system that has to be designed, developed and implemented to achieve the aim of quality. The article has the purpose to briefly present what a quality management system should mean in a software company, why it should be periodically evaluated and how it might be done. In the second part it points out the characteristics of the audit as a general evaluation instrument and the main contribution consists on the author’s endeavor to mark out the particularities of an audit process carried out on a software company, considering the fact that particularization increases the changes to easier and earlier succeed with such an activity on a practical basis.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 287-294
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English