Release judgment is the most important matter to guarantee the quality of software
Release judgment is the first step in quality improvement
If your business goal was to improve the quality of your software, what would you start with?
There are many ways to improve the quality of your software, but which one is the most effective? Would you like to improve the planning of software in the most upstream process of development ? Or do you improve the software design process ? Or do you review the quality and quantity of the test ? All of them are very important for improving the quality of software.
However, Gutara’s father started by reviewing the software release judgment . In the world language of general products, it is a shipping decision. It’s not something that has a special idea, it’s a very common way of doing quality assurance organizations.
Release judgment means not to release poor quality software
In other words , releasing good quality software means not releasing bad quality software . Does it sound like a mere word game? Well, there is also such a side. However, the means to release good quality software is quite difficult because there are so many things to think about. But the idea of not releasing bad quality software is simple. All you have to do is follow the rule that you should inspect before releasing and not release bad software , which is easy to understand as a methodology.
However, unlike mass-produced products that make the same product at the factory, it is difficult to check the quality of single- product software at the time of release . As I wrote elsewhere, in the case of mass-produced products , it has been decided that this should be correct . Sometimes called a golden sample. If it is the same as the golden sample, it can be judged that the quality is good, so various inspections and measurements are performed before shipping, and if there is no difference from the golden sample, it is a good product and shipped, and if the difference is large, it is judged as a defective product. You can take the method of not shipping.
However, there is no such thing as a golden sample in the software of one-off products . Although there are required specifications, the required specifications are not the finished software equivalent to the golden sample, so the method of measuring the difference from the golden sample and judging it as a defective product is easy to judge the quality of the software. can not use.
How to identify poor quality software
The quality of the software whether it has been a good level even if the release, if you determined to do?
Of course, for software, when the software is used, who uses it, what kind of effect it will have if there is a problem with the software, and so on. The level of quality required varies widely. However , I think the method of determining whether the quality of software has reached the required level will be similar to some extent.
Father Gutara checks the product quality status of the software, checks the process quality status, checks the test quality status , considers the impact of residual bugs on the market, and judges the software quality. I have decided whether it is okay to release it.
Software for the release decision is, for the software for the first time of release in the case of the conference attracted participants You may also be comprehensively judge to hear the people of the opinion of the various position performs, additional functions Ya If it was a release aimed at fixing bugs, I would sometimes decide by myself. In addition, the criteria for judgment have changed depending on whether the type of software used to judge the release is the official version, the evaluation version, or the beta version .
Introduction of Gutara father style release judgment
In the following articles classified as release judgment, I tried to organize as much as possible the information and judgment criteria necessary for software release judgment, so please have a look.
At the beginning of the title of the article, there is a sub-category regarding software release judgment . The subtitle following the subcategory is the outline of the specific article. There is no particular rule on the order of reading, so please read the articles in order from the one you are interested in.
For a quick overview , check out the two articles outlining the sub-categories . If you want to know a little more about what is written in the summary article, please see the individual articles or read the individual articles linked from the end of the summary article in order.