Design and development of an expert system based quality assurance module for the Dynamo Model of software project management
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Authors
Leidy, Frank H.
Subjects
artificial intelligence
expert systems
quality assurance
simulation
expert systems
quality assurance
simulation
Advisors
Abdel-Hamid, Tarek K.
Date of Issue
1984-03
Date
March 1989
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
en_US
Abstract
Quality assurance is a crucial function to the successful development and maintenance of a software system. Because this activity has a significant impact on the cost of software development, the cost-effectiveness of quality assurance is a major concern to the software quality manager. There are tradeoffs between the economic benefits and costs of quality assurance. Using the Dynamo model of software project management, an optimal quality assurance level and its distribution throughout a project's lifecycle can be identified. The focus of this thesis is to automated the process of identifying the optimum quality assurance level. An expert system was developed that, when interfaced with the Dynamo model, will generate the optimum quality assurance distribution for a given set of parameters. The ability of the expert system to generated more cost-effective quality assurance levels than manually achievable was shown.
Type
Thesis
Description
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Department
Administrative Sciences
Organization
Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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Format
82 p.
Citation
Distribution Statement
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.