The specific objective of our dgQG research has been to develop and assess quality graphics for federal statistical summaries. The goal has been to develop methods for generating quality graphics that facilitate exploration by agency users evaluating data quality and looking for emergent trends, decision making by public policy makers, and communication of statistical summaries to the public. T...

This document reports the experience of a laboratory course on software quality and is written primarily for instructors as a reference for similar activities. The project aims to teach students the main problems of testing and analyzing software systems and some solutions and tools to cope with the problems.

Quality assurance (QA) tasks, such as testing, profiling, and performance evaluation, have historically been done in-house on developergenerated workloads and regression suites. Since this approach is inadequate for many systems, tools and processes are being developed to improve software quality by increasing user participation in the QA process. A limitation of these approaches is that they f...

Quality management (QM) systems have been developed and used by many in the construction industry to ensure right things are done and things are done right the first time. However, current quality systems are designed to monitor and control the “production process” of a specific organization, with the QM data being revealed to the accreditation bodies during the auditing process only. As great ...

Venesection is a widely practised procedure, involving the removal of a unit of blood in order to treat haemochromatosis and polycythaemia. It is still well regarded due to a lack of better alternatives and a small side effect profile. At Barnet General Hospital, venesection has recently been a physician led service, unlike its neighbouring hospital at Chase Farm Hospital, which has a well run ...

In their quest for perfection and achieving organizational objectives, a large number of organizations are now in the process of adopting and implementing various quality improvement methodologies such as Total Quality Management (TQM), Total Quality Control (TQC), Statistical Process Control (SPC), and Six Sigma across all functional departments within the organization. Organizations have foll...

High quality information and updated information systems are essential for professional activities. Software maintenance plays an important role in keeping a desired level of quality and during recent decades there have been different efforts done in this area. The purpose of the study presented in this article, is to find relvant research questions and approaches for further research. A theore...

Requirements of a project are found to change in various ways during the course of the same. The effects of varying magnitude of requirement volatility on different project parameters like effort, schedule, etc have been well investigated. However, there has been no analysis on how different ‘patterns’ of requirement volatility influence selection of project management approaches and the result...