Software Quality Assurance

We focus on the process specific activities and the Management issues which enable a software companies ensure that it does the right thing at the right time in the right way in this lecture.  A quantitative discussion of quality is described in the lecture Technical Metric for software.

The Software quality assurance is an umbrella activity which is applied at each stage in the software procedure.  The SQA encompasses process for the effective application of tools and methods, testing strategies and techniques, formal technical reviews process for change control process for assuring compliance to standards and reporting mechanisms and measurement.

SQA is the complicate through the complex nature of software quality an attribute of computer programs which is describe as conformance to explicitly and implicitly defined needs but when considered more rarely, software quality encompasses many various process and product related metrics and factors.