No matter what anyone says, you can build extraordinarily high-quality software - and this book shows you exactly how the world's best software development organizations are doing it.KEY TOPICS:The best practices described in this book cover the entire lifecycle. Each chapter describes a real-world problem, and how it was identified, addressed and fixed by one of the world's best software development organizations. Coverage includes project planning, metrics, inspections, software reliability; unit, system and acceptance testing; design and construction, release control, post-implementation reviews and more.MARKET:Anyone involved in software development, including developers, testers and project managers.