Software quality assurance

Software quality assurance (SQA) is a means and practice of monitoring all software engineering processes, methods, and work products to ensure compliance against defined standards.^[1] It may include ensuring conformance to standards or models, such as ISO/IEC 9126 (now superseded by ISO 25010), SPICE or CMMI.^[2]

It includes standards and procedures that managers, administrators or developers may use to review and audit software products and activities to verify that the software meets quality criteria which link to standards.

SQA encompasses the entire software development process, including requirements engineering, software design, coding, code reviews, source code control, software configuration management, testing, release management and software integration. It is organized into goals, commitments, abilities, activities, measurements, verification and validation.^[3]

^ "What is Software Quality Assurance (SQA): A Guide for Beginners". Software Testing Help. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
^ Kelemen, Zádor Dániel; Kusters, Rob; Trienekens, Jos (December 2012). "Identifying criteria for multimodel software process improvement solutions - based on a review of current problems and initiatives". Journal of Software: Evolution and Process. 24 (8): 895–909. doi:10.1002/smr.549. S2CID 14382496.
^ Nielsen, David CMM and Project Quality Management

[1] "What is Software Quality Assurance (SQA): A Guide for Beginners". Software Testing Help. Retrieved 2022-06-02.

[2] Kelemen, Zádor Dániel; Kusters, Rob; Trienekens, Jos (December 2012). "Identifying criteria for multimodel software process improvement solutions - based on a review of current problems and initiatives". Journal of Software: Evolution and Process. 24 (8): 895–909. doi:10.1002/smr.549. S2CID 14382496.

[3] Nielsen, David CMM and Project Quality Management

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