Applying the Fundamentals of Quality to Software Acquisition

Abstract

Historically, software developed under government contracts often does not stand up under real-world use, and defects frequently result in cost and schedule overruns. While proposed development activities from contractors commonly list measures to improve quality, these descriptions cannot be used to select a winning bidder if they are not part of the evaluation criteria. By making software quality requirements explicit at the proposal stage, contractor selection can be influenced by criteria based on best practices in software development.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2012
Accession Number
AD1108739

Entities

People

  • Christine Sweed
  • David Smiley
  • Greg Carrier
  • Patrick Maurer
  • Rick Spiewak
  • Steve Bygren
  • Tom Maher

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Best Practices
  • Computer Programs
  • Configuration Management
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Information Assurance
  • Military Acquisition
  • Reliability
  • Risk
  • Signal Processing
  • Software Development
  • Software Testing
  • Standards
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Software Engineering.