What is Quality Assurance?
Quality Assurance ensures all parties concerned with the project adhere to the process and procedures, standards and templates and test readiness reviews. Rob Davis’ QA service depends on the customers and projects. A lot will depend on team leads or managers, feedback to developers and communications among customers, managers, developers’ test engineers and testers.
Quality Assurance ensures all parties concerned with the project adhere to the process and procedures, standards and templates and test readiness reviews. Rob Davis’ QA service depends on the customers and projects. A lot will depend on team leads or managers, feedback to developers and communications among customers, managers, developers’ test engineers and testers.
Quality assurance is the process of verifying or determining whether products or services meet or exceed customer expectations. Quality assurance is a process-driven approach with specific steps to help define and attain goals. This process considers design, development, production, and service. The most popular tool used to determine quality assurance is the Shewhart Cycle, developed by Dr. W. Edwards Deming. This cycle for quality assurance consists of four steps: Plan, Do, Check, and Act. These steps are commonly abbreviated as PDCA. The four quality assurance steps within the PDCA model stand for: • Plan: Establish objectives and processes required to deliver the desired results. • Do: Implement the process developed. • Check: Monitor and evaluate the implemented process by testing the results against the predetermined objectives • Act: Apply actions necessary for improvement if the results require changes. PDCA is an effective method for monitoring quality assurance because it ana
Quality Assurance, whether it consists of a team or a person, has the primary responsibility of verifying that the users needs are being met, as well as supporting the goals and objectives of the organization. Providing data processing management with an additional degree of confidence, the Quality Assurance function verifies that the computerized applications will be well controlled and easily maintainable. By maintaining levels of high quality, organizations are able to dominate their industries. Therefore, it is extremely important that standards are in place. Quality cannot be built into a product, or measured, until it is defined. Standards must be established against which quality can be measured that will allow a successful Quality Assurance Function to mature. It is only through standards that the proper balance between goals, methods, and performance can be achieved. Error found in the field, can cost a company twice as much to fix, not to mention customer dissatisfaction. Ass
This is the text of an article published by Peter Griffin WHAT IS QUALITY ASSURANCE ? The official definition is:- “ALL THOSE PLANNED AND SYSTEMATIC ACTIONS NECESSARY TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE CONFIDENCE THAT A PRODUCT OR SERVICE WILL SATISFY GIVEN REQUIREMENTS FOR QUALITY” This definition does not expand the understanding of the term Quality Assurance, and the accepted meaning could be expressed by the definition:- “THE ABILITY TO DEMONSTRATE CONSISTENT COMPLIANCE WITH REQUIREMENTS” The requirements are those specified by the customer, or for the purposes of external recognition, those specified by the Standard for Quality Systems, ISO9000. ISO9000 specifies the minimum requirements for a Quality Assurance system, this can be extended to achieve greater improvements in efficiency and profitability by “Cost Effective Quality Management”. Quality Assurance is repeating good performance on every contract by the use of a system of documented procedures which are known, understood and operated b
