SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE (SQA)
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Reference:
  Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach by Pressman.

SQA Process Goal: high-quality software.

Software Quality: 
  Conformance to 
  1. explicit functional and performance requirements.
  2. explicit development standards.
  3. implicit characteristics of professionally developed software.
     example: easy to maintain

SQA Process Activities:
  1. quality management
  2. effective software engineering technology (methods and tools)
  3. formal technical reviews that are applied throughout the software process
  4. multi-tiered testing strategies
  5. control of software documentation and updates
  6. procedures to assure compliance with standards
  7. measurement and reporting mechanisms

Quality Control (QC):
  Series of inspections, reviews, and tests used throughout the development cycle
  to insure that each work product meets the requirements.
  
  Includes a feedback loop to the process that created the work product.

SQA Plan:
  Purpose
  Management (organization, tasks, responsibilities)
  Documentation
  Standards (conventions)
  Reviews /Milestones
    Requirements Review
    Design Reviews (preliminary, detail)
    Verification Review (does the product work correctly?)
    Validation Review (is it the right product?) 
    Management Reviews
  Software Configuration Management
  Problem Reporting and Corrective Action
  Tools, Techniques, Methodologies
  Records

Factors:
  Product Operations:
    Correctness, Reliability, Efficiency, Integrity, Usability

  Product Revisions:
    Maintainability, Flexibility, Testability

  Product Transition:
    Portability, Reusability, Interoperatibility

Sofware Reviews:
  Goals: Find defects in analysis, design, code
         Strive for uniform (or predictable) quality
  
  Walkthrough:
  1. small number of people
  2. review leader 
  3. short review concentrates on specific part of software
  4. set agenda, limit debate, don't solve every problem
  5. review product, not producer
  6. take written notes
  7. sign-off (accept, reject, accept provisionally)

  Improvements:
    Programming, Scheduling, Expertise