1.8.6.
1.8.7.
1.8.8.
1.8.9.
Defect Tracking and Reporting
Defect Prevention
Process Improvement Models (CMMI, SIX Sigma)
Lean Software Process
2. Establishing the Software Quality Assurance Function
2.1. All activities related to establishing an SQA group
2.2. Stakeholder Identification
2.3. Developing SQA plan
2.4. Establish Budget
2.5. Establish Personnel
2.6. Establish Mission/Objectives
2.7. Selling SQA to Management
2.8. Demonstrating ROI for SQA efforts
2.9. Base lining current software quality levels and Cost of Quality
2.10. Defining standards, procedures, methodologies, best practices and guidelines
2.11. Instituting metrics and measurements
2.12. Deploying processes
2.13. Evaluating Methodologies and Automated Tools
2.14. Implementing Defect Studies
3. Verification and Validation Methods
3.1.
3.2.
3.3.
3.4.
3.5.
3.6.
3.7.
Verification and Validation Defined
Unit, integration, System, and User Acceptance Testing including planning and design activities of each
Inspections and other forms of peer reviews
Forms of Inspections and Reviews
Effective and practical inspections practices
Code Analysis
Independent V&V
4. Software Development, Integration, Release, and Support
4.1.
4.2.
4.3.
4.4.
4.5.
4.6.
4.7.
4.8.
Traditional SDLC
Agile development
Incremental delivery
Methods for determining and documenting the architecture and design (high-level and detailed) for software
products
Methods and activities associated with the release and installation of software systems
Activities associated with supporting and maintaining software products
Change control and management
Activities involved in choosing, contracting with, and assuring the performance of software suppliers (both those
who provide commercial off-the-shelf COTS products, and those that do custom development)
5. Configuration Management
5.1.
5.2.
5.3.
5.4.
5.5.
5.6.
Principles and activities of the Discipline of Software Configuration Management
Identifying configuration items
Establishing baselines
Controlling change
Establishing and maintaining repositories
Assuring the integrity of software work products.
6. Project Management and Planning
6.1. Activities associated with planning projects including size, effort and cost estimation, schedule development,
resource planning, knowledge and skills planning, etc.
6.2. Activities associated with managing projects including comparing actual measures to estimates, determining
project status, managing risks, reporting status, taking corrective action, tracking action items
6.3. Requirement-based project management
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