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Software Quality Assurance (SQA)

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Software Quality Assurance Payal Chotaliya (14bce168)
Institute of technology, Nirma university

Abstract
Software Quality Assurance (SQA) involves the entire software development process - monitoring and improving the process, making sure that any agreed-upon standards and procedures are followed, and ensuring that problems are found and dealt with. It’s aimed towards prevention and if followed will result in the production of quality software. This paper emphasizes the importance of a quality process and also discusses about the ways in which it could be achieved.

Introduction
Though billions of dollars are spent trying to develop quality software, software bugs are very common. For most computer systems, the cost of software constitutes …show more content…

Software Testing
Software Testing involves operating a system, or an application, under controlled conditions, and evaluating the results. In most cases, software testing will involve the development of a test bed, which tests the given software, upon a set of test cases. The test bed will feed the test input to the software system, get the result that’s generated by the software system, and compares the generated result with the expected result. If the generated result is same as the expected result, then the software is bug free else, it has bugs that need to be fixed.

Software testing is normally carried out under controlled conditions. The controlled conditions should include both normal and abnormal conditions. The aim of testing is to try to break the software, and find the bugs in it. Successful testing will discover all the bugs in the software. Developing automated test tools to perform testing is an active area of research. Testing is oriented towards detection of bugs in the On the other hand, SQA is aimed at avoiding …show more content…

Also, a clearly defined process is not equal to a good process.

CMM is not the only methodology, that’s in place to improve the software development process. There are also other approaches suggested by IEEE, ANSI and the ISO. But the CMM model is the most popular, and is an industry standard, with wide spread use and acceptance.

Conclusion
Software development is complex, and is error prone. Many problems that are faced during software development can be tackled, by adopting a good software development process. From our discussion, it’s apparent that good processes are essential. The software industry is still learning, about good processes for software development. CMM was developed, to assess, and to give organizations, a framework to improve. Despite some flaws, CMM is a significant contribution to the software industry.

References
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_quality_assurance
2. http://www.sqa.net
3. https://www.techopedia.com/definition/4363/software-quality-assurance-sqa
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