Courseware Quality Groups Tie-in to Reinforcing

Software Quality Assurance (SQA) involves the complete software development process - monitoring and improving the process, making sure that any agreed-upon standards and procedures are followed, and ensuring that the problems are found and dealt with. It’s major aim is towards anticipation and to result in the making of quality software. This paper emphasizes the importance of a quality process and also discusses about the ways in which it could be achieved. It looks at the different ways the quality group's purpose and an enforce were viewed. The potential benefits and detracts for various authorities are discussed, along with the organizational structure and typical activities for each. The idea that the authority for the quality group changes over time is also presented, along with observed developments in the organizations. The various possible organizations, charters, and portrayal are described and related briefly to quality systems described in both the SEI Maturity Model and ISO 9000 Standards (ISO 9001 and ISO 9000-3). It describes the impact on product quality of the different types of development process, and possible roles for the software quality group.