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In order to explain the QEF Software Process Automation System,
one must first understand how software is developed and used to create
and control products in different industries.
For example, in the Medical
Imaging industry, software is used to program the imaging equipment.
In aviation, software is used to monitor and control the flight paths
of planes approaching an airport. The stock market has been
computerized with some successes, but, as we know, some difficulties
as well.
The software developed has to be designed to specifications just as a
car would be. Then it must be built. To continue the automobile
analogy, the software, like a car, is built from many different parts
put together. If the assembly plant must deal with only one type of
car or one colour (black) the building process is greatly simplified.
But the modern world necessitates companies to produce many different
models of cars, each with different or additional features. The plant
of today must respond quickly and efficiently to the changes in the
demand on the product. So too with software, but in some ways
software is even more complicated because much of software is uniquely
designed and programmed.
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Once the product is built, it must be tested and shipped to the
customer. If there is a problem in one of the models, the company must
be able to trace what exactly was shipped where.
When automobiles were first produced, they were largely built, by
hand, individually. Each car was as good as its individual maker. It
took Henry Ford to perfect the assembly line in order to automate the
process and to ensure consistent quality.
Software is mostly still in the pre-assembly stages. There are
software tools in the marketplace which help with the software
process, the configuration. But with these tools, there still needs a
lot of individual programming to work.
QEF is the only product to offer Software Process Automation.
It is the Henry Ford of the Software Process market.
It manages and automates the processes from the design to the testing and
shipping.
It can ensure quality and consistency over a company's range of products.
When a company builds its products with QEF, it knows
what went to which customer and can reproduce the software years in
the future.
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