Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/SBES.2009.15
