Development of mobile applications is a complex task due to the specific characteristics of the environment. Although different proposals to offer more practical and systematic processes have been published within the so-called mobile software engineering, it is still necessary to devise more advanced methods, especially in the area of software quality assurance. This chapter presents a set of ...

eveloping software systems involves a series of activities where there are many opportunities to make errors. Such errors may occur at an early stage of the development process where user requirements are incorrectly or incompletely specified, and also in subsequent stages when design and programming faults are introduced. Thus, software development should always be accompanied by quality assur...

Since their introduction, use cases (UCs) have become increasingly important for the specification of software requirements. Model driven development approaches like the Rational Unified Process base the whole software life cycle on UCs. Therefore, high quality UCs are a prerequisite for project success. Despite the high importance of their quality, UC driven approaches often lack systematic an...

The quality of a cervical cytology laboratory depends on adequate handling and staining of the samples, screening and interpretation of the slides and reporting of the results. These guidelines give an overview of procedures recommended in Europe to manage the balance between best patient care possible, laboratory quality assurance and cost effectiveness and will be published as a chapter 4 in ...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), located in southeast New Mexico, is a deep geologic repository for the permanent disposal of transuranic waste generated by DOE defense-related activities. Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), in its role as scientific advisor to the DOE, is responsible for evaluating the long-term performance of the WIPP. This risk-based Perf...

The recommended methods to test the performance of computed radiography (CR) systems have been established by The American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Report No. 93, “Acceptance Testing and Quality Control of Photostimulable Storage Phosphor Imaging Systems”. The quality assurance tests are categorized by how frequently they need to be performed. Quality assurance of CR systems is th...

to determine the coverage rate, timeliness and quality of ante-natal care in rural areas under the coverage of health houses in west azerbaijan province, 30 health houses (hh) were randomly selected out of 731 hh in the province. in each hh, using the method of lot quality assurance sampling (lqas) 28 women having recently born babies was selected. data were collected using check-list for facil...

Current database survivability technologies focus on maintaining data integrity and availability in the face of attacks. They are very limited in satisfying differentiated information assurance requirements of various database services under sustained attacks. This paper takes the first steps towards delivering database services with information assurance guarantees. In particular, (a) we intro...