Ensuring the product quality in all of its development 
stages.

Review, Documentation....these r QA responsibilities...

1. The main responsibility of QA is to check whether the 
product/project development is going through the "process". 
It is mainly "Process-oriented".
2. Because of this process oriented, we r not going to 
check and code or any developed product. So it is mainly 
concentrates on defect prevention.
3. The activities of QA should afftect the whole staff 
involved in the project. So it is "Staff function.
4. The common activities of QA include Reviews, Design 
meetings etc...

Ensure the quality in every stage of software development 
life cycle process by conducting reviews, walkthrows, 
inspections and meetings

Defining the quality processes
ensuring the development and testing sholud follow the  
     process(walkthroughs,reviews,meeting,inspections..etc)
Chcking Whether the development or testing following the 
        process or not(Auditing)
taking corrective measure to keep track the process .

Nothindg but PDCA -Plan Do Check and Act
plan the process
Do according to Process
check the process
Act according the result of checking

1.	Inspecting the actual deliverables.
2.	To audit standards, processes, and procedures.
3.	Establish metrics to measure the effectiveness of 
this process.
4.	Review all test plans, test results, development 
plans and quality plans.
5.	Design and code inspections.
6.	Audit SCM performance.
7.	Identify nonconformance.
8.	Comparing actual steps performed with established 
procedures.
9.	To audit Products and the Processes.
10.	Process Monitoring.
11.	Participate in transitioning acquired products to 
the project.
12.	Auditing the supplier’s agreements.
13.	Providing objective results that can be used in 
making informed decisions, and taking appropriate 
corrective actions
14.	Specifying the measures, data collection, storage 
mechanisms, analysis techniques, and reporting & feedback 
mechanisms.
15.	Ensuring that noncompliance issues are addressed.
16.	Evaluating performed processes, work products, and 
services against the applicable process descriptions, 
standards, and procedures. 
17.	Identifying and documenting noncompliance issues. 
18.	Providing feedback to project staff and managers on 
the results of quality assurance activities.
19.	Providing accurate status and current configuration 
data to developers, end users, and customers.
20.	Compose the baselines for work products maintaining 
the integrity of it.
21.	Providing specifications to build work products 
from the SCM system.