Introduction to SQA (Prelims) Part 1 Flashcards
Is the degree to which a software product meets established requirements; however, quality depends upon the degree to which established requirements accurately represent stakeholders needs, wants, and expectations.
Software Quality
Is a set of activities that define and assess the adequacy of software processes to provide evidence that establishes confidence that the software processes are appropriate for and produce software products of suitable quality for their intended purpose.
Software Quality Assurance
Based on the planning and implantation of a series of activities that are integrated into all stages of the software development process.
SQA
Refers to the software development products keeping the specified technical requirements and suitability for stakeholder’s intended use.
SQA
An organization’s leaders should create an interval environment in which employees are involved in achieving quality targets.
Leadership
Refers to the technical appropriateness of the development process.
SQA
Organizations depend on their customers, and this need to understand their current and future needs, fulfill their requirements, and achieve their satisfaction.
Customer Focus
The involvement of employees at all levels enables benefiting from their capabilities to promote software quality issues.
Involvement of People-Employees
Managing activities and resources as processes results in their improved efficiency. The process approach includes establishing the organization’s processes to operate as an integrated and complete system.
Process Approach
Process management achieves higher effectives and efficiency through identification, analysis, and understanding of interrelated processes.
System Approach to Management
Continual combined improvement of quality and processes’ effectiveness and efficiency performance are a permanent objective of the organization. For instance, Brainstorming sessions or think tanks open the door to continues workplace improvements by bringing members of management together to resolve problems.
Continual Improvement
Decisions should be based on data and information. This allows for objective decision making that will lead to positive actions.
Factual Approach of Decision-Making
Understanding that an organization’s supplier relationships based on mutual benefits contributes to improved performance of the organization with regard to quality, efficiency, and effectiveness.
Mutual Beneficial Supplier Relationships
It needs to undergo defect corrects, and other maintenance services, which typically include user instruction, corrections, adaptations, and improvements of the software product during their life cycle.
Software Products
It activates the computer system to performance the required applications. It is a collection of instructions that can be executed by a computer to perform a specific task.
Computer Programs (the codes)
