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UNIT: IV

Software Quality Assurance

It is a process for evaluating and documenting the

quality of the products produced during each stage of

the software development lifecycle.

SQA requires monitoring of the methods and

standards of the software organization andmanagement insight into quality practices.

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Quality Planning

It is the dominant part of quality engineering

activities.

Quality planning before specific quality assurance(QA) activities is carried out, known as pre-QA

activities in software quality engineering.

Quality assurance activities are central to dealing

with defects and assuring quality for the software

products.

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Therefore, they should and normally do consume themost resources in terms of human efforts as well as

utilization of computing and other related resources.

Measurement and quality assessment activities start

after selected QA activities. Typically, at the early

part of the development process

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Major Software Quality Assurance

Activities

Prepare an SQAplan for a project.

Participates in the software projects developmentprocess.

Review software engineering activities to verify

compliance with the defined software products.

Audit report design for the software work.

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Prepare an SQA plan for a project

The plan is developed during project planning and is

reviewed.

The plan identifies the audit report, standards that areapplicable to the project, procedure for error reporting

and tracking.

The final documents to be produced by the SQA

group to the software project team.

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Participates in the software projects

development process The software team selects a process for the work to

be performed.

The SQA group reviews the process description for

compliance with organizational policy, internal

software standards, externally imposed standards (e.g.

ISO 9001), and other part of the software project plan

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Review software engineering activities to

verify compliance with the defined software

products

The SQA group identifies, documents, andtracks deviations from the process and verifies

that corrections have been made

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Audit report design for the software

work

SQA group design a audit report for the wholesoftware project and submit it to the project

manager.