Quantitative quality evaluation and improvement in incremental financial software development

Software quality is extremely important in financial software development. Though incremental software development enables high quality releases, efficient quality management is essential to make the best tradeoff between schedule, effort, cost and quality in order to reduce the potential risks in financial systems. In this chapter the authors suggest quantitative quality framework with a set of evaluation, analysis and improvement approaches. Related practice in a global IT corporation shows that the approaches have significant business value in avoiding decision issues. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.