Software Quality Assurance 1st Edition

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This book on software quality assurance has many quality problems.I'm not discounting the author's expertise. LaPorte and April obviously have the credentials to write on this topic.But the book has many faults:It's poorly organized. Comparisons are made with standards that haven't been introduced. There are frequent shifts of topic without any demarcation of concepts.It doesn't really attempt to impart useful information. It's a stream-of-consciousness text that jumps from one topic to another with only superficial depth that seems to rarely say anything substantial.The verbiage is tortuously obfuscated in semantic satiation and terrible writing. I get that technical papers are not casual reading. But this is a rather egregious example of bad writing. And I don't feel this is a technical paper due to its lack of apparent depth.I'm not sure who the target audience is for this book. It definitely not for an introduction to SQA. A novice is not going to get anything out of this book. Nor does it seem targeted for advanced SQA engineers. They'll more easily follow what the authors are saying when the authors aren't spending pages in circuitous statements of not saying anything. But the depth seems lacking.If there's another edition of this book, I recommend LaPorte and April pull in an experienced writer to do it. Not "pull in an experienced writer to help rewrite it," but "pull in an experienced writer to rewrite the whole book." A rework of this text written by a professional writer and guided by LaPorte and April's experience and expertise would be an interesting read.