Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance is the process where the quality is being maintained throughout the life cycle of any activities with pre-planned tasks. Quality assurance is being associated with the predefined process in each stage. Quality should have the planned process during the project initiation, analysis and planning when we define the project scope, the design and requirement specification when we specify features and the baseline system, development and testing during building the product and finally the delivery and support after delivering the product to the clients.
Quality assurance is the sum of the planning and the implementations of the plans the project manager, the project team and management does to ensure the project meets the demands of quality. QA is not something that is done only at the end of the project, but before and during the project.
Harinya always prepare for quality assurance with the three inputs as below.
The quality management plan: This plan defines how the project team will implement and fulfil the quality policy of the performing organization.
Results of quality control measurements: Quality control tests will provide these measurements. The values must be quantifiable so results may be measured, compared and analyzed.
Operational definitions: The metrics that define the project processes, their attributes and units of measure are needed for QA.
Testing
The importance of getting the requirements for a software development project ‘right’ is universally regarded as a pre-requisite to achieving success. In the past, requirements were often seen as unimportant by developers, when compared to the ‘technical’ documentation such as the designs and program specifications. But, as failure to deliver acceptable systems became more common (and expensive), pressure from users has forced developers to concentrate much more effort on requirements gathering and validation stages. Inspections, reviews, walkthroughs and prototyping are now widely used to refine and validate requirements.
Testing is also one of the most important stages of the software development life cycle and Harinya serves the customers with both automated and manual testing as per the requirements. By using the systematic approach outlined within the automated testing lifecycle methodology, we can organize and execute test activities in such a way as to maximize test coverage within the limits of testing resources. This structured test methodology involves a multi-stage process, supporting the detailed and interrelated activities that are required to introduce and utilize an automated test tool:
- Develop test design.
- Develop and execute test cases.
- Develop and manage test data and the test environment.
- Document, track, and obtain closure on issue/trouble reports.
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