Friday, August 24, 2007

Complementing Development With Independent QA

Managers of software development organizations often face the challenge of fixing post-release software quality issues. Since the release itself is impeded due to the Software QA processes not being as process-driven as the development, there is a need for Outsourcing QA to address this issue. Development and QA Goals: Building software is comprised of two complementary activities: development & QA Testing. QA is responsible for unearthing, tracking and reporting defects throughout a product’s lifecycle. The outputs from Software QA include defect reports having actual, problems, potential problems & inconsistent specifications / code. Merging Development and QA: Having established the goals of the QA and development teams, one is faced with the question of View the rest of this article


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