Mumbai University > Information Technology > Sem6 > Software Engineering

Marks: 5M

Year: May 2015

SQA Activities:

• Software quality assurance is composed of a variety of tasks associated with two different constituencies – the software engineers who do technical work and an SQA group that has responsibility for quality assurance planning, record keeping, analysis and reporting.

• Following activities are performed by an independent SQA group:

  1. Prepares an SQA plan for a project: The plan is developed during project planning and is reviewed by all stakeholders. Quality assurance activities performed by the software engineering team and the SQA group are governed by the plan. The plan identifies evaluations to be performed, audits and reviews to be performed, standards that are applicable to the project, procedures for error reporting and tracking, documents to be produced by the SQA team, and amount of feedback provided to the software project team.

  2. Participates in the development of the project’s software process description: 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 (eg. ISO-9001), and other parts of software project plan.

  3. Reviews software engineering activities to verify compliance with the defined software process: The SQA group identifies, documents, and tracks deviations from the process and verifies that corrections have been made.

  4. Audits designated software work products to verify compliance with those defined as a part of the software process : The SQA group reviews selected work products, identifies, documents and tracks deviations, verifies that corrections have been made, and periodically reports the results of its work to the project manager.

  5. Ensures that deviations in software work and work products are documented and handled according to a documented procedure: Deviations may be encountered in the project plan, process description, applicable standards, or technical work products.

  6. Records any noncompliance and reports to senior management: Non- compliance items are tracked until they are resolved.