Beyond Anecdotal Thinking: Deepening Our Understanding for Achieving Quality Goals

Author

Hirzalla, Mamoun ; Bahrs, Peter ; Cleland-Huang, Jane

Volume

31

Issue

3

fYear

2014

fDate

May-June 2014

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

29

Abstract

Quality goals for security, business agility, maintainability and other such attributes are often achieved through implementing best practices. To know which stakeholder goals are attainable and how they can best be achieved, we must empirically evaluate software development beliefs and practices. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/gLHkN_5wVCc is an audio podcast in which author Jane Cleland-Huang speaks with coauthor Mamoun Hirzalla from the Requirements column about the importance of challenging ideas, questioning beliefs, and understanding how various development practices and technical decisions can help or hinder the achievement of development goals.

Keywords

service-oriented architecture; achieving quality goals; audio podcast; beyond anecdotal thinking; business agility; maintainability; security; software development beliefs; Monitoring; Organizations; Predictive models; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Service-oriented architecture; anecdotal evidence; best practices; empirical; quality goals;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MS.2014.57

Filename

6803001