From Requirements to Release Criteria: Specifying, Demonstrating, and Monitoring Product Quality

摘要

Without good planning and monitoring, product quality is often a matter of chance. Specifying quality requirements is an excellent first step to predictable, managed product quality, but it is just the beginning. Quality specification, quality planning, data generation, quality monitoring, and quality reporting all work together to ensure that quality levels are known throughout the project. Quality release criteria are a good way to ensure that product quality drives interim milestone releases and the final product release. The breadth of quality dimensions can force teams to learn new concepts and skills in order to demonstrate the qualities associated with the release criteria. Despite this challenge, quality specification and quality monitoring are excellent practices that help monitor end product quality throughout the lifecycle.