Desired Quality in Cloud Application Development

Leah Riungu-Kalliosaari, Ossi Taipale and Kari Smolander have released an article on cloud applications and quality. This research publication is a part of ongoing STX project, which is partially funded by FiSMA. More information on this article, and other STX publications can be found from the address http://www2.it.lut.fi/project/STX/ or by contacting the project manager Ossi Taipale (D.Sc.) via email at ossi.taipale@ lut.fi

Abstract from the paper: ”This qualitative case study describes how software development organizations reach for their own context - dependent quality in cloud application development. The study collected the data from selected organizations through interviews and applied the grounded theory method in the analysis. The study concludes that the desired quality varies among the organizations. However, usability was found to be an important quality characteristic n all the organizations. The organizations involved a set of three similar activities to attain the desired quality characteristics. These activities are summarized as (1) Selecting a suitable life-cycle model, during which (2) the customer is engaged and (3) the most suitable tools are used. The organizations incorporated these activities so as to establish supportive working practices for acquiring the desired quality."