SQA-Plan.ppt

Software quality assurance Plan

1. Software Quality Assurance
Planning
The Goals of Software Quality Assurance:
To improve software quality by appropriately
monitoring both the software and the development
process that produces it.
To ensure full compliance with the established
standards and procedures for the software and the
software process.
To ensure that any inadequacies in the process,
product and standards are brought to
managements attention so that these inadequacies
can be fixed

2. Software Quality Assurance Plan
For each development project the SQAP
specifies:
Its goals
SQA tasks to be performed
Standards against which development work is
to be measured
Software quality procedures

3. Contents of SQA Plan -Purpose
Purpose
Describes the purpose of the project SQAP
List software covered by SQAP
State portion of software life cycle covered
Try to address following issues:
What is the intended use of the software (criticality,
interfaces etc…)?
What is the scope of this SQAP?
How will this plan contribute to the success of the project?
Name the SDLC that applies to the project and deviations?

4. Contents of SQA Plan –
Reference Documents
Reference Documents
complete list of documents referenced elsewhere in
the SQAP

5. Contents of SQA Plan –
Management
organization -depict structure of org.
responsibilities
tasks
tasks to be performed
relationship between tasks and checkpoints
sequence of tasks
responsibilities
of each organizational unit

6. Contents of SQA Plan –
Documentation
•identifyrequired documents
•state how documents will be evaluated
•minimum documents required:
–SRS -Software Requirements Specification
–SDD -Software Design Description
–SVVP -S Verification and Validation Plan
–SVVR -S. Verification and Validation Report
–User documentation -manual, guide

7. Contents of SQA Plan –Standards,
Practices, Conventions and
Metrics
Identify S,P,C,and M to be applied
How compliance is to be monitored and assured
Minimum
documentation standards, logic structure standards,
coding standards, testing standards
List Selected SQA product and process metrics
•Defects Found, Change Activity, Software Structure,
Availability,…
•Must be related to measurable objectives in Purpose
Section.

8. Contents of SQA Plan –
Reviews and Audits
purpose
define what reviews/audits will be done
how they will be accomplished
what further actions are required
Minimum
Software Requirements Reviews
Preliminary Design Review
evaluate technical adequacy of top-level
design

9. Contents of SQA Plan –Test
Identify all tests that are not
included in SVVP for the software
covered by the SQAP and shall state
the methods to be used.

10. Contents of SQA Plan –
Problem Reporting
Practices and Procedures for reporting,
tracking, and resolving problems
Organizational responsibilities

11. Contents of SQA Plan –Tools,
Techniques and Methodologies
identify the special software tools,
techniques and methodologies
purpose
describe use

12. Standards
Standards provide a basis against which activities can
be measured and evaluated
Document, established by consensus and approved by
a recognized body, that provides, for common and
repeated use, rules, guidelines or characteristics for
activities or their results, aimed at the achievement of
the optimum degree of order in a given context. (ISO
–International Organization for Standardization)

13. Types of Standards -1
Regulatory Standards -imposed by
Governmentlegislation or regulation;
Speed Limits;
Electric Voltages for Distribution;
SomeCommunications standards.
Consensus Standards -adopted by a
community ofinterest to further the
interests of the community
Most professional Standards and many
manufacturingStandards.

14. Types of Standards -2
External Standards -define the ways in
which anorganisation relates to its clients
and competitors.
e.g. AS 3563; ISO 9001; ANSI/IEEE 730 etc.
Internal Standards -define the
practices andprocedures in place within
an organisation.

15. The Standards Process
Formulation
Definition
Approval
Implementation
Comment