SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE

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 Quality means:
 meeting the customer’s requirements, at the agreed cost, within
the agreed timescales.
 “Fitness for purpose”
 Customer satisfaction
 Quality Assurance
Quality assurance can be defined as, ‘the establishment of frame work of
organizational procedures and standards that lead to a high quality software’
Quality assurance is the function responsible for managing quality. The word
“assurance” means that if the processes are followed, management can be assure of
product quality.
 Design the process to (1) avoid the root causes of defects and (2) to meet customer
requirements.