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Software Quality Assurance (SQA) as a professional domain is becoming increasingly important. This book provides practical insight into the topic of Software Quality Assurance. It covers discussion on the importance of software quality assurance in the business of Information Technology, covers key practices like Reviews, Verification & Validation. It also discusses people issues and other barriers in successful implementatin of Quality Management Systems in organization. This work presents methodologies, concepts as well as practical scenarios while deploying Quality Assurance practices and integrates the underlying principle into a complete reference book on this topic.
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Good but overpriced........2007-08-22
I recently purchased an international version of this book for considerably less than the price advertised on Amazon. For what I paid I consider it a good reference to have for SQA, but I still like Schulmeyer's Handbook of SQA which has a new edition coming out September 30 for $99. No disrespect intended, but the book seemed written by someone who was not a native speaker of English, so the wording can be a little difficult to follow.
Expensive for nothing.......2007-04-07
The book quality is good the cover and papers are ok, the problem is the price with relation to the material inside.
The book is too expensive for what you get from it, there is many other books with the same subjects inside with less money.
This book can be useful if you are starting to learn the quality assurance.
Project Manager's Review.......2005-09-23
I recently had the pleasure in working with Mrs Godbole on a project in South Africa.
I was the project manager and she supported me in the role as a Senior QA Analyst.
After reading her book I was pleasantly surprised to see that she is actually putting into practice what she has documented in her book, Software Quality Assurance: Principles And Practice.
Chapter 4-Product Quality and Process Quality I found very interesting. As a project manager I have to manage the quality of product deliverables and at the same time this needs to be per a standard quality process.
This book is not a one time read for project managers.
I use this book every day in my day to day project management activity.
I recommend all project managers to not only read this book but to use it as an everyday project management tool.
I also set-up project management offices - I recently used this book to set-up the entire QA workstream within the organization.
A truly classic reference material and easy reading.......2005-08-08
In my career as a practitioner implementing sound Software Quality Assurance principles, this book has come as a great boon.
The author has adequately reflected her thoughts into a real world of SQA with very fine illustration of the implementation aspects in the organization. The book should be a good reference to both students and practitioners who wish to understand the principles of software quality assurance and the challenges faced during successful implementation. Practitioners are likely to benefit more from the author's excellent illustration of examples and the discussion on the people issues in successful implementation of the Quality Management System in their organization.
Chapters that will be of interest to real world SQA include Chapter 2- Managing Software Quality in an organization (excellent expression of the organization's commitment to Quality, chapter 4-Product Quality and Process Quality, chapter 5 (A sound foundation for a metrics initiative), Chapter 7. Software Configuration Management (Pitfalls in SCM), Chapters 8 (ISO 9001 - especially the insights into ISO consulting and services!!), Chapter 10-Software testing (The V model for testing phases and test process improvement framework is indeed very interesting and informative) The best part of the book which I enjoyed most was chapter 11-Careers in Quality, in which the author has so aptly brought out the role of a mentor who can help carve a career in Quality. The author's clarity in documenting the different roles for Quality professionals is really commendable.
SQA as a discipline is difficult to implement and is more engineering focused than most disciplines in development and operations. In spite of these challenges, this book has been written to support Software Quality Assurance as an important component of software engineering activity and contains chapters that are specifically slanted towards that approach. Included are chapters on Walkthroughs and Inspections, Software Configuration Management, Software testing and Software measurement and metrics. The author also provides solid information on ISO Quality Assurance standards, SEI CMM, SEI CMMI, and PCMM, as well as on common practices followed at "Mature Organizations".
As a textbook the coverage of every facet of SQA from why and what, to testing, metrics and its role in organizations and projects are thoroughly covered. The fact that the material is up-to-date and truly reflects the real world makes this one a must read for college level courses and more so, it prepares students for roles as practitioners. It is a classic and earns a solid 5 stars.
Great information source for Software Quality Assurance.......2005-07-08
As someone who has worked in both software development and quality, I instantly connected with the quality practices and scenarios that the author describes about the role of quality in most software development organizations. It states the challenges faced by SQA teams in implementing quality practices, especially in terms of people issues and the approach that may be taken to overcome them. This book provides insight into the SQA function and role, its importance and the commitment required to make it effective. I liked this part, as there are few books that stress on the crucial role played by the SQA in a company committed to quality.
I found the section on measurement and metrics with metrics and formulae that can be used through the SDLC. There are other books that provide in depth treatment on metrics, but the content here is useful because of its timing and context and it works well as a ready reference. The author has explained a number of international quality models like ISO and CMM along with their comparative study and mapped them to the various phases in the SDLC wherever possible. There are books available that dwell on a single quality model, but few go beyond more than a one page tabular comparison. I have found that quality professionals have to often struggle to map between multiple models to aggregate information at an organizational level when projects execute using models most appropriate to them.
The chapter that I enjoyed reading most was "Careers in Quality". This chapter is informative for IT professionals who aspire to move into the quality arena. It outlines the various opportunities available and the paths that may be taken to achieve them. The author has also explained the importance of a mentor and the qualities one should look for in a mentor who can help shape one's career. There are few places where one finds information on how one can make a complete career transition to quality, mentors and the various certifications that can be obtained for faster and focused growth.
Throughout this book, the author has explained concepts like process life cycle and inspection walkthroughs using diagrams, making them easy to understand. A number of sample documents (Quality Assurance Plan) and checklists (Configuration Audit) are available which can be used as a starting point by SQAs in their organizations.
On the whole a good read and informative. Recommended book to have.
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Parallel Computing: Principles and Practice
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This book sets out the principles of parallel computing, explaining why, where, and how parallel computing is used. It is unique in its coverage of both conventional and neural computing (which act in ways similar to human brains), and also covers such topics as the fundamental paradigms employed in the field, how systems are programmed or trained, technical aspects including connectivity and processing element complexity, and how system performance is estimated (and why doing so is difficult). The penultimate chapter comprises a set of case studies of archetypal parallel computers, each study written by an individual closely connected with the system in question. The final chapter correlates the various aspects of parallel computing into a taxonomy of systems.
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This innovative textbook presents the key foundational concepts that can be covered in a one semester undergraduate course in the theory of computation. It offers the most accessible and motivational course material available for undergraduate computer theory classes and is directed at the typical undergraduate who may have difficulty understanding the relevance of the course to their future careers. The text helps make students more comfortable with techniques required for the deeper study of computer science.
This text is a bridge between theory and practice. It shows how theory is motivated by practical problems, and in turn how theory influences the practice of computing. Simple tools like string matchers, complex tools like compilers, and general notions like cryptographic security all lie at the interface between principles and practice.
* Contains coverage of contemporary topics: languages and problems, machine models, grammars, reductions, resource consumption, syntax vs. semantics, sequential vs. parallel computation, feasible vs. intractable problems
* Motivates students by clarifying complex theory with many examples, exercises, and detailed proofs
* Offers an integrated review of discrete math concepts, defining each concept where it is first used
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This is a great book to take a course from.......1998-10-06
I took a course from Hoover, one of the authors, using this book. The material is very suitable for a senior undergraduate course introducing the theory of computing. It covers all the essential notions one needs to proceed further into the field, such as all the various types of automata, circuits, complexity-related notations, etc. And, most importantly, I think it does so in a readable, dare I say enjoyable fashion. It gets formal when it needs to be, but intuitive when appropriate. It resists the temptation merely to enumerate the various models of computation, and instead provides meaningful insight into each (as well as proving all the important theorems). Finally, there are a great deal of problems, some of which are fairly nasty. (Well, they made ME think anyway)
This book (and admittedly also the co-author's presentation of it) contributed substantially to my deciding to study this area more in depth. I recommend it strongly to students and professors.
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Digital watermarking is a key ingredient to copyright protection. It provides a solution to illegal copying of digital material and has many other useful applications such as broadcast monitoring and the recording of electronic transactions. Now, for the first time, there is a book that focuses exclusively on this exciting technology. Digital Watermarking covers the crucial research findings in the field: it explains the principles underlying digital watermarking technologies, describes the requirements that have given rise to them, and discusses the diverse ends to which these technologies are being applied. As a result, additional groundwork is laid for future developments in this field, helping the reader understand and anticipate new approaches and applications.
* Emphasizes the underlying watermarking principles that are relevant for all media: images, video, and audio.
* Discusses a wide variety of applications, theoretical principles, detection and embedding concepts and the key properties of digital watermarks--robustness, fidelity, data payload, and security
* Examines copyright protection and many other applications, including broadcast monitoring, transaction tracking, authentication, copy control, and device control.
* Presents a series of detailed examples called "Investigations" that illustrate key watermarking concepts and practices.
* Includes an appendix in the book and on the web containing the source code for the examples.
* Includes a comprehensive glossary of watermarking terminology
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An unified approach to digital watermarking.......2001-11-13
Digital Watermarking is definitely the first book to present in an unified approach the foundations of digital watermarking. The text is clear and didactic, following Cox, Miller and Bloom's writing style that has been evident in their seminal research papers. Very little previous knowledge on communications and information theory is required to follow the book, and still there is an appendix covering the background concepts on these subjects.
The topics are developed in an intuitive fashion, resorting to geometric analogies whenever possible, and the proposed programming experiments (which are backed up by source code both in an appendix and on-line) allow the reader to develop valuable insights on the concepts. Watermarking with side information, message coding as well as error analysis are extensively developed. A very "juicy" chapter is devoted to the applications and motivation of digital watermarking, covering timeliness subjects such as DVD copy control and the SDMI.
Theoretical issues are left for a tiny appendix, and not much use of it is made throughout the book. This is comprehensible in a book aimed to be an unified introduction to the subject. The notation that has been introduced in the very first papers by the authors is still used and it does not seem to be appropriate to present more elaborated theoretical developments. But again, this is justified when formality is being traded off by insight development and intuitive treatment. As a last critic, since virtually the whole book is devoted to image watermarking, maybe the next editions (I hope there will be more !) of this book should include the word "image" in the title.
This book will certainly boost your understanding about background concepts and shed more light on the overlapping among different research areas in digital watermarking.
Finally!.......2001-11-10
Finally a good review of this field. I haven't read the whole thing, but what I've read, I like. Well written, good table of contents. I've skimmed the whole book and looked at some of the source code. Code is easy to understand. This is not simply a long research paper or a collection of research papers, it is more like a text book. Glossary is helpful too.
Watermarking demistified.......2001-11-08
The book explain watermarking technology and uses fine but in order to help users to understand it better.
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With word processing and the Internet, computing is much more part and parcel of the everyday life of the humanities scholar, but computers can do much more than assist with writing or Internet searching. This book introduces a range of tools and techniques for manipulating and analysing electronic texts in the humanities. It shows how electronic texts can be used for the literary analysis, linguistic analysis, authorship attribution, and the preparation and publication of electronic scholarly editions. It assesses the ways in which research in corpus and computational linguistics can feed into better electronic tools for humanities research. The tools and techniques discussed in this book will feed into better Internet tools and pave the way for the electronic scholar of the twenty-first century.
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for a humanities reader.......2006-03-01
Hockey has been involved in the use of computers for the humanities since the 1980s. This is her most recent book. It is directed towards a reader majoring in the humanities, who needs some guidance with computing. The book is brief, and summarises what can be done in terms of preparing manuscripts for journals, many of which nowadays offer and may actually prefer electronic submission.
But Hockey also discusses how once papers have been put into electronic form, they can be analysed. At various levels of semantic/linguistic parsing. The computer science jargon is minimised, for which some readers should be grateful. The ideas are explained clearly.
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Interviewing: Principles and Practices, clearly the leading text in this field, emphasizes building interviewing skills for both interviewers and interviewees, while also including the latest research findings and developments. After learning the basics of interviewing (chapters 1-4), this text then delves into specific types of interviews. Role-Playing Cases, found throughout the text, have the dual benefit of teaching and illustrating points.
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