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The effects of development team skill on software product quality

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Justin M. Beaver,

Guy A. SchiavoneAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 31, Issue 3

Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/1127878.1127882

Published: 01 May 2006 Publication History

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This paper provides an analysis of the effect of the skill/experience of the software development team on the quality of the final software product. A method for the assessment of software development team skill and experience is proposed, and was derived from a workforce management tool currently in use by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Using data from 26 small-scale software development projects, the team skill measures are correlated to 5 software product quality metrics from the ISO/IEC 9126 Software Engineering Product Quality standard. In the analysis of the results, development team skill is found to be a significant factor in the adequacy of the design and implementation. In addition, the results imply that inexperienced software developers are tasked with responsibilities ill-suited to their skill level, and thus have a significant adverse effect on the quality of the software product.

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The effects of development team skill on software product quality
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. System management
        Quality assurance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Collaboration in software development
      1. Programming teams
    2. Software development techniques
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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 31, Issue 3

May 2006

171 pages

ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/1127878

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