SOFTWARE
QUALITY ASSURANCE (SQA)
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Reference:
Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach by Pressman.
SQA Process Goal: high-quality software.
Software Quality:
Conformance to
1. explicit functional and performance requirements.
2. explicit development standards.
3. implicit characteristics of professionally developed software.
example: easy to maintain
SQA Process Activities:
1. quality management
2. effective software engineering technology (methods and tools)
3. formal technical reviews that are applied throughout the software process
4. multi-tiered testing strategies
5. control of software documentation and updates
6. procedures to assure compliance with standards
7. measurement and reporting mechanisms
Quality Control (QC):
Series of inspections, reviews, and tests used throughout the development cycle
to insure that each work product meets the requirements.
Includes a feedback loop to the process that created the work product.
SQA Plan:
Purpose
Management (organization, responsibilities)
tasks, Documentation
Standards (conventions)
Reviews /Milestones
Requirements Review
Design Reviews (preliminary, detail)
Verification Review (does the product work correctly?)
Validation Review (is it the right product?)
Management Reviews
Software Configuration Management
Problem Reporting and Corrective Action
Tools, Techniques, Methodologies
Records
Factors:
Product Operations:
Correctness, Reliability, Efficiency, Integrity, Usability
Product Revisions:
Maintainability, Flexibility, Testability
Product Transition:
Portability, Reusability, Interoperatibility
Sofware Reviews:
Goals: ...