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Development methods contain heuristics and constraints that help in producing good quality products. Whereas CASE tools enforce method constraints, they rarely support heuristic checking. This paper develops a generic quality model, capable of handling both method constraints and heuristics, which forms the basis of a uniform mechanism for building quality products. The model is metric based, hierarchical in nature, and links metrics to the developmental decisions that are available in a method. The use of this model and the associated quality assessment process is demonstrated through an example of the Yourdon method.
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Prakash, N., Sibal, R. (1999). Modelling Method Heuristics for Better Quality Products. In: Jarke, M., Oberweis, A. (eds) Advanced Information Systems Engineering. CAiSE 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1626. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48738-7_33
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