1 sqa13b IEEE Standard for SQAP u IEEE Std –Standard for Software Quality Assurance Plans –12 pages u IEEE Guide for Software Quality Assurance Planning –87 pages

2 sqa13b Contents of SQA Plan (sect 1&2) u 1. Purpose –list software covered –state portion of software life cycle covered –(draft) u 2. Reference Documents –complete list of documents referenced elsewhere

3 sqa13b Sect 3 - Management u organization - depict structure of org. –responsibilities u tasks –tasks to be performed –relationship between tasks and checkpoints –sequence of tasks u responsibilities –organizational elements responsible for each task

4 sqa13b Sect 4 - Documentation u identify required documents u state how documents will be evaluated u minimum documents –SRS - Software Requirements Specification –SDD - Software Design Description –SVVP - S Verification and Validation Plan –SVVR - S Verification and Validation Report –User documentation - manual, guide –SCMP - S Configuration Management Plan

5 sqa13b Sect 5- Standards, Practices, Conventions and Metrics u Identify S,P,C,and M to be applied u How compliance is to be monitored and assured u Minimum –documentation standards, logic structure standards, coding standards, testing standards –selected sqa product and process metrics »e,g, branch, decision points

6 sqa13b Sect 6 - Reviews and Audits u purpose –define what reviews/audits will be done –how they will be accomplished –what further actions are required u Minimum –Software Requirements Reviews –Preliminary Design Review »evaluate technical adequacy of top-level design

7 sqa13b Min Set of Reviews/Audits (cont) –Critical Design Review »acceptability of detailed designs –Software Verification and Validation Plan Review »adequacy of planned verification and validation –Functional Audit »all requirements in SRS have been met –Physical Audit »software and documents are consistent and ready –In-Process Audit –Managerial Reviews

8 sqa13b Sect 7 - Test u All tests not included in SVVP

9 sqa13b Sect 8 - Problem Reporting u Practices and Procedures for reporting, tracking, and resolving problems u Organizational responsibilities

10 sqa13b Sect 9 - Tools, Techniques and Methodologies u identify the special software tools, techniques and methodologies –purpose –describe use

11 sqa13b The rest u 10 - Code Control u 11 - Media Control u 12 - Supplier Control (for outsourcing) u 13 - Records - collection, maint and retention u 14 - Training u 15 - Risk Management

12 sqa13b L13bS12 - Individual Task u Write an SQA Plan for an organization which has 100 software engineers, 20 team leaders, 2 levels of managers above the teams and 10 engineers in the QA department. u Turn/fax in