Quality Assurance Process

This document discusses software quality assurance (SQA). It notes that SQA should be fully utilized to trace errors cost-effectively. SQA is important for business survival and helps companies release applications to users by tracing the roots of problems, providing flexible solutions, and enabling better customer service and innovation. The document outlines SQA principles like feedback, evolution, quality control, and persistence. It also discusses SQA activities, tools, planning, and standards.

Quality Assurance process for software development projects. Structure, practices, tools and case studies.

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This document provides an overview of software quality assurance and testing. It discusses what SQA is, why it is important, and the software development and testing life cycles. It describes the differences between verification and validation. It also outlines seven principles of software testing and what is involved in SQA planning, such as analyzing the product, designing a test strategy, creating test objectives, defining testing criteria, and planning test environments and schedules.

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This document discusses software quality assurance (SQA). It defines SQA as a planned set of activities to provide confidence that software meets requirements and specifications. The document outlines important software quality factors like correctness, reliability, and maintainability. It describes SQA objectives in development and maintenance. Key principles of SQA involve understanding the development process, requirements, and how to measure conformance. Typical SQA activities include validation, verification, defect prevention and detection, and metrics. SQA can occur at different levels like testing, validation, and certification.

This document discusses software quality metrics and the costs of software quality. It describes the classic model which classifies quality costs into costs of control (prevention and appraisal) and costs of failure of control (internal and external failures). Prevention costs include investments in infrastructure and regular quality activities. Appraisal costs cover reviews and testing. Internal failures are errors found before release, while external failures are found after. The document provides examples and estimates for various quality metrics.

Software quality assurance ensures that standards, processes, and procedures are appropriate for a project and implemented correctly. With increased complexity from technologies like client-server architectures, scalability, portability, distributed environments, and multi-user environments, SQA has become a core part of the software development lifecycle. Testing now begins earlier and involves every team member.

This document outlines the agenda for a two-day workshop on software quality assurance (SQA). The workshop will cover basic SQA concepts, introducing quality into an organization, best practices for quality assurance procedures, policies and artifacts, measuring results using metrics, and moving to continual improvement. It will provide an overview of topics related to SQA and industry best practices. Attendees will learn basic quality concepts, steps to achieve quality objectives, and how to implement quality assurance and control standards and processes.