{"id":1099,"date":"2014-02-08T11:06:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T19:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.testing4success.com\/t4sblog\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2014-02-08T11:06:30","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T19:06:30","slug":"what-does-software-quality-assurance-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.testing4success.com\/t4sblog\/what-does-software-quality-assurance-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does Software Quality Assurance Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quality Assurance (QA)<\/strong> focuses on ‘prevention’. It covers all software development processes. This includes monitoring and improving the process, ensuring that standards and procedures are followed, and that problems are identified and resolved. QA encompasses processes such as code reviews and release management. It is the processes followed by people within the project, Project Managers, Analysts, Developers, Testers, etc. to prevent problems and assure quality. A subset of Quality Assurance is Software testing<\/strong>. Software testing focuses on ‘detection’. Testing is one process that helps ensure software quality. It is the process of examining software components in order to find errors.<\/p>\n

To understand the concept of Software Quality Assurance in Software Development step by step, consider the following 5 steps: Design, Coding, Testing, Deployment, and Post-Release Maintenance. These are the 5 main steps of the development of the software.\u00a0 The first step will be the \u201cDesign\u201d of the software. The designing should being with the client’s need make sure everything is there before you start the next step. There are two design deliverables are usually required, the external design and the internal design. \u201cCoding\u201d is the longest phase of the software development life cycle is implementation as this is when code is produced based on the deliverables of the design phase. For a developer, this is the main focus of the life cycle because code is produced. Implementation may overlap with both the design and testing phases. Then comes the \u201cTesting\u201d when the requirements are validated by ensuring the code produced in implementation is actually addressing the gathered needs. Next is \u201cDeployment\u201d which is also called release of the software. And this is when software delivers to the customers and gets installed. At last \u201cPost-Release Maintenance\u201d that only takes place if any error takes place after the software has been released and installed. The Post-Release Maintenance should be avoided since the cost of post-release maintenance\u2019s cost is 67% of the total cost.<\/p>\n

Software Quality Assurance is comprised of the following three activities:<\/p>\n