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Software Quality Assurance: Delivering Consistent Quality

 
Course: 312     Type: Course Workshop     Duration: 4 Days

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You Will Learn How To
  • Implement and effectively lead Software Quality Assurance (SQA) activities
  • Improve customer satisfaction through quality and process initiatives
  • Analyze information through static and dynamic techniques including walkthroughs and inspections
  • Conduct audits by following a defined process
  • Control critical components using Configuration Management (CM)
  • Champion a continuous process improvement program in your organization

Course Benefits
Systems that fail to provide adequate functionality can reduce profit, productivity and result in costly rework. Implementing and monitoring process improvement and quality initiatives can lead to cost-effective systems. This course provides the necessary skills to define, design, implement and monitor a software quality system using proven techniques that can be tailored for your organization. You also gain the skills to audit work products throughout the product life cycle.

Who Should Attend
Software professionals, project managers, business analysts, quality analysts and others involved with developing, testing or improving the development and production of systems.

Course Workshop
You apply proven software quality assurance techniques in a series of workshops, including:
  • Discovering software quality problems
  • Applying life cycle models
  • Determining the appropriate project standards
  • Conducting walkthroughs and audits
  • Identifying configuration items
  • Designing metrics for your project
  • Comparing best practices and standards
  • Implementing process improvements

Course 312 Content
Introduction to Software Quality Assurance
  • Contrasting roles: Software Quality Assurance, Testing, Verification and Validation
  • Comparing software development life cycles
  • Documenting processes
  • Defining the goals of Software Quality Assurance
Software Quality Assurance Components
Analyzing the components of Quality
  • Creating processes
  • Choosing the best practices and implementing process improvement initiatives
Implementing a road map
  • IEEE
  • CMMI
  • ISO 9001
  • Selecting and documenting standards
  • Conducting training
  • Participating in reviews and audits
  • Maintaining records
Planning for Software Quality Assurance
Applying verification and validation techniques for error detection
  • Evaluating verification and validation techniques
  • Analyzing life cycle products
  • Implementing walkthroughs
  • Exploring testing techniques
Detecting defects while applying inspection techniques
  • Defining the inspection process
  • Planning and conducting an inspection
  • Communicating inspection results
Conducting Audits
The types of audits
  • Comparing process, product, project, quality system and configuration audits
  • Documenting audit findings in a report
Comparing industry standards
  • Complying with industry standards and models: ISO 9001 and CMMI
  • Comparing the work products against industry best practices
Verifying product configuration using configuration audits
  • Demonstrating the product satisfies the requirements
  • Ensuring the as-built product complies with the documentation
Improving productivity using in-process audits
  • Assessing internal processes for compliance
  • Analyzing processes and procedures used during development
Initiating the auditing process
  • Planning and preparing for the audit
  • Reporting the results
  • Monitoring noncompliance
Applying Configuration Management (CM)
Defining the components of a CM system
  • Identifying the workflow and work products
  • Managing and controlling products for consistency
  • Assessing and managing components with release management
  • Communicating product status using reports
Ensuring quality by controlling CM components
  • Verifying software and hardware components
  • Maintaining test data for regression tests
  • Tracking change requests
Participating in an SQA and CM audit
  • Reviewing documentation against a standard
  • Interviewing quality and configuration management personnel
  • Documenting and confirming audit findings
  • Presenting audit findings
Continuous Process Improvement
Fostering learning through process improvement
  • Defining and implementing process improvement
  • Planning process improvement initiatives
Achieving excellence through metrics
  • Selecting and analyzing metrics
  • Analyzing data through root cause analysis
  • Communicating organizational progress
Coordinating the next steps
  • Implementing corrective actions
  • Focusing on prevention techniques

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Software Quality Assurance: Delivering Consistent Quality
Software Quality Assurance: Delivering Consistent Quality
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