This practical, hands-on guide captures, categorizes, and builds a process of best practices to avoid creating defects during the development process?rather than fixing them after extensive analysis. While there are various proprietary and competing standards for reducing software defects, these met[...]

This is an open access title available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence. It is free to read on Oxford Medicine Online and offered as a free PDF download via OUP and selected open access locations. Before new interventions are released into disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefu[...]