Open AccessThe effects of development team skill on software product quality
Author(s) -
Justin M. Beaver,
Guy A. Schiavone
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
acm sigsoft software engineering notes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-5843
pISSN - 0163-5948
DOI - 10.1145/1127878.1127882
Subject(s) - team software process , software development , software quality , personal software process , software engineering , software quality analyst , software quality control , quality (philosophy) , engineering , product (mathematics) , software , software project management , software development process , process management , verification and validation , software construction , engineering management , computer science , operations management , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , epistemology , programming language
This paper provides an analysis of the effect of the skill/experience of the software development team on the quality of the final software product. A method for the assessment of software development team skill and experience is proposed, and was derived from a workforce management tool currently in use by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Using data from 26 small-scale software development projects, the team skill measures are correlated to 5 software product quality metrics from the ISO/IEC 9126 Software Engineering Product Quality standard. In the analysis of the results, development team skill is found to be a significant factor in the adequacy of the design and implementation. In addition, the results imply that inexperienced software developers are tasked with responsibilities ill-suited to their skill level, and thus have a significant adverse effect on the quality of the software product.
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