This live interactive web-based course is designed to provide a comprehensive knowledge base and practical skills for anyone interested in dramatically improving project outcomes. True Software Quality Assurance(SQA) is not testing or "traffic cop" compliance. Rather, Proactive Software Quality Assurance(SQA)™ creates an environment to promotes and reliably produces software of suitable quality for your organization's needs consistent with risk.
This course shows and gives practice applying Proactive SQA™ mindset, concepts, and techniques for the six key SQA functions.
Participants will learn:
- Effects of confusion defining system/software quality and a useful working definition.
- Reasons for QA failures and factors critical to success of QA in IS development.
- Relation of life cycle and process maturity models to assuring quality.
- The six Proactive Software Quality Assurance™ functions that SQA should perform.
- Proven quality management and review methods for promoting quality and preventing errors.
- A structured Proactive Testing* model of which testing activities should be performed when and by whom within the life cycle to maximize testing efficiency and effectiveness.
- Applying risk analysis, reusable testware, and metrics to perform more thorough testing in less time..
- Measuring system quality and SQA/Testing effectiveness.