Habilities and Behavioural Profiles of SQA Professionals Related to Process Maturity Levels

Author

Meira, Aliny F. ; Silva, Fabio Q B Da

Author_Institution

Centro de Inf., UFPE, Recife, Brazil

fYear

2009

fDate

5-9 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

136

Lastpage

144

Abstract

This article describes a research carried out with specialists in Software Quality to identify the required abilities and define the most adequate behavioral profile for the professional in the Software Quality Assurance (SQA) area.The main result is a model that characterizes the behavioral profile of the SQA professional at each maturity level of software development process. Furthermore, it is shown that the required abilities of the SQA professional change as the process maturity evolve. These results help to improve the processes of allocation and development of professionals in the Software Quality Assurance area.

Keywords

human factors; quality assurance; software development management; software quality; SQA professionals; behavioral profile; process maturity levels; software development process; software quality assurance; software quality specialists; Programming; Single event transient; Software engineering; Software quality; Perfis de comportamento; papel funcional de SQA.; perfis de equipe; qualidade de software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering, 2009. SBES '09. XXIII Brazilian Symposium on

Conference_Location

Fortaleza, Ceara

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5024-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3844-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SBES.2009.15

Filename

5336096