Answer posted by Radhika on 2005-05-23 17:51:42: An integrated system of management activities involving planning, implementation, assessment, reporting, and quality improvement to ensure that a process, item, or service is of the type and quality needed and expected by the client.
An integrated system of management activities involving planning implementation assessment reporting and quality improvement to ensure that a process item or service is of the type and quality needed and expected by the client.
contains the audits and reporting functions of management.The goal is to provide the information about product quality to the management thereby gaining insight & confidence that product quality is meeting its goals.
QA is oriented to prevention.It involves entire s/w developement process-monitering and improving process making sure that all agreed upon standards and procedures are followed and ensuring that problem are found and dealt with.
Quality Assurance: The set of activities (including facilitation training measurement and analysis) needed to provide adequate confidence that process are established continuously improvedto produce products that meet specifications and are fit for use.
Quality Assurance: All those planned or systematic actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that a product or service is of the type and quality needed and expected by the customer.
def : All those planned and systematic actions are neccessary to provide adequate confidence that a product or serice will satisfy the given requirements of the customer.
that means meets the customer requirements w.r.to Functionality and meets the specification with respect to the portabiliy usability cost and time
quality assurance simply we can say that to make sure that devolopped software doesnt have bugs ..........
QA involves the complete process of software development monitoring and improving the process making sure any agreed upon standards and procedures are followed and ensuring that problems are found and dealt with. It is oriented for prevention. it is the meaure to see the quality of the testing process.
