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An industrial course in Software Quality Assurance

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Software Engineering Education (SEI 1988)

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An account of a course in Software Quality Assurance given to industrial Software Engineers in Central Scotland. The University of Strathclyde, in partnership with ten Information Technology Companies, is providing a range of such courses to update employees in IT industries. An accumulation of credits from such courses leads to a Masters degree.

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Hunter, R.B. (1988). An industrial course in Software Quality Assurance. In: Ford, G.A. (eds) Software Engineering Education. SEI 1988. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 327. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0043587

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