Human and organizational factors influence software quality

The results suggest that software development managers influence the productivity of developers and the quality of the software products.   Several challenges of software testing that affect software quality are also brought to light. The findings of this research are expected to benefit the academic community and software practitioners by providing an insight into the issues pertaining to software quality construction undertakings.

Software quality has become an important research subject, not only in the Information and Communication Technology spheres, but also in other industries at large where software is applied. Software quality is not a happenstance; it is defined, planned and created into the software product throughout the Software Development Life Cycle.

The research objective of Seth’s study is to investigate the roles of human and organizational factors that influence software quality construction. The study employs the Straussian grounded theory. The empirical data has been collected from 13 software companies, and the data includes 40 interviews.

MSc. F. P. Seth, will defend his doctoral dissertation in the field of Software Engineering at the Lappeenranta University of Technology on August 12 at noon, room 1382. His dissertation is titled “Empirical studies on software quality construction: Exploring human factors and organizational influences”. Professor Mika Mäntylä of University of Oulu, Finland will act as opponent. Professor Kari Smolander of Lappeenranta University of Technology will act as custodian.