Transcript The Software Quality Assurance System By Jonathon Gibbs Jonathon Gibbs (jxg16u) 26th November 2009

The Software Quality Assurance System
By Jonathon Gibbs
Jonathon Gibbs (jxg16u)
26th November 2009
The Software Quality Assurance System
Contents
• Introduction
• Software Quality Assurance Components
• Pre-Project Components
• Project Lifecycle Activities and Assessment
• Infrastructure Components for Error Prevent and Improvement
• Software Quality Management
• SQA Standards, System Certification and Assessment Components (SQA SSA)
• Organising the SQA
• Conclusion
• Questions
Jonathon Gibbs (jxg16u)
26th November 2009
The Software Quality Assurance System
Introduction
• Quality Assurance
• Product complexity
• Product visibility
• Software Quality Assurance
• Product complexity
• Product visibility
• Product development and production process
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The Software Quality Assurance System
SQA Components
• Why bother with the SQA System?
• Six components to the SQA System
• Pre-Project Components
• Project Lifecycle Activities and Assessment
• Infrastructure Components for Error Prevention and Improvement
• Software Quality Management
• SQA Standards, System Certification and Assessment Components (SQA SSA)
• Organising the SQA
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The Software Quality Assurance System
Overview
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Pre-Project
Pre Project Components
• Contract review
• Process of the agreement of a contract between the client and organisation
• Budget and schedule agreed at this stage
• Focus on development risks
• Development and quality plans
• Reflects the changes that have occurred
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Project Lifecycle
Project Lifecycle Activities and Assessment
• Development lifecycle and operation maintenance
• Five main components (assessment)
• Reviews
• Design reviews (DR)s
• Peer reviews
• Expert opinions
• Software testing
• Software maintenance
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Infrastructure
Infrastructure components for error prevention and improvement
• Attempts to lower software faults
• Uses six components to do this
• Procedures and work instructions
• Supporting quality devices
• Staff training, instruction and certification
• Preventive and corrective actions
• Configuration management
• Documentation control
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Management
Software quality management
• Project progress control
• Focuses on deviations from initial plan
• Software quality metrics
• Measures software quality
• Software quality costs
• Control
• Failure
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Standards
SQA standards, system certification and assessment components
• External tools to achieve the in-house goals
• Standards
• Quality management standards
• What
• Project process standards
• How
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Organization
Organising the SQA, the human components
• SQA Organizational base
• Management
• Define quality policy
• SQA unit
• Focus completely on SQA
• SQA trustees, committees and forums
• Contribute through personal interest
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Conclusion
• Important
• Without it important software would fail
• Organisation size does not matter
• External members can be used
• Each component equally important
• They address different aspects
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Questions?
Any Questions?
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