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Mark wrote:

> I am in San Diego and work for a software company.
>
> I am more interested in quality software production than any subject.
>
> My future plans are to be in a position where software is created in
> the
> best possible environment of quality and cooperation.
>
> Write me if you have any information that will interest me or if your
> goals
> are similar.
>
> --
> sig: San Diego is a great city.  I'd love to help you with
> information.

   The Software Engineering Institute (government funded Researh and
development) benchmarkes successful (and less so) software companies in
the 80s, performed a redaction analysis on the data and determined the
key practices for a quality software process.  These practices were
grouped together by common fuinction, and prioritized based on their
pre-requisite relationships.  This information is documented in the
capability maturity model (SEI CMM).  Do not be lead astray that it is a
cookbook to developing software (this is the most common mis-use)  but
it WILL help you prioritize your improvement efforts and prompt you to
address areas you might have missed.  THey can be found www.se.cmu.edu.

A must have book for this exercise is "Managing the Software Process" by
Watts Humphrey.

Also, Comp.software-eng, comp.software.testing, and
comp.software.testing shoudl be added to your list.


Good Luck!

Suzanne Zampella
Software Process Engineer.