QUALITY ASPECTS OF SYSTEM-DEVELOPMENT PARADIGMS

Complex systems (eg. software systems) can only be developed by a step wise process. A major contributor to a product's quality is the qualit y of the process by which it is developed. Quality cannot be added to a product after it has been developed. Therefore quality assurance pro cess is dependent on the development process and must be intimately in tertwined with it. Furthermore the paradigms used for development will have a strong influence on the quality of the final product. In this paper we investigate how different development paradigms (from waterfa ll to object-orientation) impact some key quality criteria: need satis faction, error detection time, future orientation, and re-usability.