SQA Activities

SQA activities.:


SQA is composed of variety of tasks associated with 2 different constituencies. - Software Engineers who do the technical work and SQA group that has responsibility for quality assurance planning, oversight, record keeping, analysis, and reporting.

Software engineers address quality by applying solid technical methods and measures. conducting Formal Technical reviews, and performing well-planned software testing. The SQA group is to assist the software team to achieve high-quality end product.

Activities performed by SQA group:
1. Prepare an SQA plan for a project.
SQA activities are governed by the plan.It identifies
1. evolutions to be performed.
2. audits and reviews
3. standards that are applicable to project.
4. procedure for error reporting and tracking.
5. documents to be produced by the SQA group.
6. amount of feedback provided to software team.

2. Participate in the development of the project's software process description.
SQA group reviews the process of project with respect to organizational policy, external standards maintained by the company.

3. Reviews software engineering activities to verify compliance with the defined software process. SQA groups is subjected to do this work.

4. Audits designated software work products to verify compliance with those defined as part of software process.

5. Ensures that deviations in software work and work products are documented and handled according to a documented procedure.

6. Records are noncompliance and reports to senior management.

These are the SQA activities.
In addition to these activities, the SQA group also co-ordinates the control and management of change and helps to collect and analyze software metrics.