This paper addresses the question: is higher capability maturity associated with adoption of Quality Assurance (QA) certification? To assess the extent of adoption of third-party QA certification by Australian software developers, a survey of 1,000 software developers was recently conducted. The questionnaire also included an assessment of their capability maturity based on the capability matur...

Board certification has been part of the social contract in which physicians commit to maintaining up-to-date scientific knowledge and improving the quality of patient care. However, the maintenance of certification program has been controversial. This review summarizes the philosophical underpinnings, published literature, recent improvements, and future directions of the American Board of Ped...

quently requested by software clients, Many clients seek products that maintain themselves or can be maintained by a third party. This model required considerable effort to develop, eventually resulting in a set of quality properties that are measurable from the source code and related to the subcharacteristics of quality proposed in ISO/IEC25010 (Table 1). • The Evaluation Environment which la...

A second revolution in quality is occurring in US health care, as profound as the Flexner revolution almost 100 years ago. Systems issues are the basis for most of the concern, but physician quality and professional development are also important. Specialty board certification and maintenance of certification are key drivers of professional development and improvement of care. Physicians are no...

A case study of software certification reveals the real difficulty of certifying quality beyond superficial assessment readers are invited to form their own conclusions. AS 3563 Software Quality Management System is the Australian version of ISO 9001, developed specifically for the software industry. For many Australian software houses, gaining certification with AS 3563 is a priority since cer...

Previous studies by other researchers in this discipline provide a set of axiom and supporting models for software assessment and quality but are not extended to a practical and well accepted model of certification. During the last five years, two preliminary works was undertaken in this research group to study issues of certification and these works are still continuing. Recently, this initial...

Recently, software quality issues have come to be seen as an important subject as we see an enormous growth of agencies involved in software industries. However, these agencies cannot guarantee the quality of their products; thus leaving users in uncertainties. Software certification is the extension of quality by means that quality needs to be measured prior to certification granting process. ...

BACKGROUND In the period 2004-2009, national and regional initiatives were developed in Sweden to improve the quality of sickness certificates. Parameters for assessing the quality of sickness certificates in primary health care have been proposed. The aim of this study was to measure the quality of sickness certification in primary health care by means of assessing sickness certificates issued...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), with the cooperation of 14 other Federal agencies, has proposed a quality assurance plan for acquiring digital imagery in the United States. This plan is a result of cooperative work with sensor manufacturers, data providers, and the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS). The plan identifies four key components affecting quality when a...