Software Quality Improvement by Documentation - Knowledge Management Model

This paper addresses an essential and significant concern in the development of computer software - its quality. The major proposal of the paper is that computer science faculty, in their design and implementation of core curriculum; do not devote sufficient attention to teaching their students how to develop high-quality software. As in industry, the most common and popular way of assuring the quality of programs is through software testing. In other words, quality is treated as a late addition or as postscript in software development. The paper presents and discusses a software quality improvement by documentation – knowledge management model that can be used to incorporate a wide variety of quality assurance techniques within a curriculum. The specific focus of this paper is to uncover various types of errors done by students during software development, which is been carried out as a part of their master degree programme.