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PROBLEMS AND POINTS TO PONDER 161
FURTHER READINGS AND INFORMATION SOURCES 162

CHAPTER 7 PROJECT SCHEDULING AND TRACKING 165
7.1 Basic Concepts 166
7.1.1 Comments on “Lateness” 167
7.2.1 Basic Principles 168
7.2 The Relationship Between People and Effort 170
7.2.1 An Example 170
7.2.2 An Empirical Relationship 171
7.2.3 Effort Distribution 172
7.3 Defining a Task Set for the Software Project 172
7.3.1 Degree of Rigor 173
7.3.2 Defining Adaptation Criteria 174
7.3.3 Computing a Task Set Selector Value 175
7.3.4 Interpreting the TSS Value and Selecting the Task Set 176
7.4 Selecting Software Engineering Tasks 177
7.5 Refinement of Major Tasks 178
7.6 Defining a Task Network 180
7.7 Scheduling 181
7.7.1 Timeline Charts 182
7.7.2 Tracking the Schedule 185
7.8 Earned Value Analysis 186
7.9 Error Tracking 187
7.10 The Project Plan 189
7.11 Summary 189
REFERENCES 189
PROBLEMS AND POINTS TO PONDER 190
FURTHER READINGS AND INFORMATION SOURCES 192

CHAPTER 8 SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE 193
8.1 Quality Concepts 194
8.1.1 Quality 195
8.1.2 Quality Control 196
8.1.3 Quality Assurance 196
8.1.4 Cost of Quality 196
8.2 The Quality Movement 198
8.3 Software Quality Assurance 199
8.3.1 Background Issues 200
8.3.2 SQA Activities 201
8.4 Software Reviews 202
8.4.1 Cost Impact of Software Defects 203
8.4.2 Defect Amplification and Removal 204
8.5 Formal Technical Reviews 205
8.5.1 The Review Meeting 206
8.5.2 Review Reporting and Record Keeping 207
8.5.3 Review Guidelines 207
8.6 Formal Approaches to SQA 209
8.7 Statistical Software Quality Assurance 209
8.8 Software Reliability 212
8.8.1 Measures of Reliability and Availability 212
8.8.2 Software Safety 213