IEEE Standard for SQAP

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IEEE Standard for SQAP

• IEEE Std 730-1989
• Standard for Software Quality Assurance Plans
• 12 pages
• IEEE Guide for Software Quality Assurance
  Planning - 730.2
• 87 pages

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Contents of SQA Plan (sect 12)

• 1. Purpose
• list software covered
• state portion of software life cycle covered
• (draft)
• 2. Reference Documents
• complete list of documents referenced elsewhere

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Sect 3 - Management

• organization - depict structure of org.
• responsibilities
• tasks
• tasks to be performed
• relationship between tasks and checkpoints
• sequence of tasks
• responsibilities
• organizational elements responsible for each task

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Sect 4 - Documentation

• identify required documents
• state how documents will be evaluated
• 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

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Sect 5- Standards, Practices, Conventions and
Metrics

• Identify S,P,C,and M to be applied
• How compliance is to be monitored and assured
• Minimum
• documentation standards, logic structure
  standards, coding standards, testing standards
• selected sqa product and process metrics
• e,g, branch, decision points

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Sect 6 - Reviews and Audits

• purpose
• define what reviews/audits will be done
• how they will be accomplished
• what further actions are required
• Minimum
• Software Requirements Reviews
• Preliminary Design Review
• evaluate technical adequacy of top-level design

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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

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Sect 7 - Test

• All tests not included in SVVP

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Sect 8 - Problem Reporting

• Practices and Procedures for reporting, tracking,
  and resolving problems
• Organizational responsibilities

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Sect 9 - Tools, Techniques and Methodologies

• identify the special software tools, techniques
  and methodologies
• purpose
• describe use

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The rest

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

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L13bS12 - Individual Task

• 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.
• Turn/fax in