ANALYSIS OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN MODERN EUROPEAN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

摘要

Software is everywhere around us and thus the importance of the software development industry has strongly increased. Quality is recognized as the key to business success in software development as well. Due to the main difference between a software product and any other material product, the main principles of quality management in software development are special. In the paper, the software and its development specifics are explained, and then a survey of basic quality management principles for software development purposes is presented. The main goal of the paper is to analyze the deployment frequency of the quality management principles in the software development companies and thus to suggest directions for their further use.