2209 The Application of the Control Chart for Securing of Quality in the Offshore Development : Discovering the Problem of the Process and Early Securing of Quality

Abstract

Recently most Japanese software development companies take advantage of the Offshore Development in order to reduce development cost. Offshore Development enables to provide inexpensive labor in large quantities, however it is inevitable to rework the product received from Offshore Development company due to problems of less communication and low quality consciousness. We have introduced the control chart as a tool which the Offshore Development company uses for quality management in order to develop good quality software from the early stage of the production phase. They can detect the problems and improve them at the beginning of both the code review and the program testing. In this paper we describe effectiveness of control chart and the refer to improve.