Question { Trigent, 34219 }

QA Responsibilities?

Answer

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.

Question { Value Labs, 50328 }

what is the role of QA in all the phases of SDLC?

Answer

SDLC Phase: Requirements and Analysis
Artifact: 1) Software Requirements Specification Document
(SRS) 2) Functional Specification Document (FS)
Tasks Performed by QA: 1) Document Review With Respect to
Customer Requirements and Report 2) Document Review With
Respect to SRS and Report

SDLC Phase: Design Analysis
Artifact: Design Specifications (DS)
Tasks Performed by QA: Develop Test Plan and some Test
Cases are formed


SDLC Phase: Coding
Artifact: Coding
Tasks Performed by QA: Execute Test Cases using Online
Testing Strategies or Offline Testing Strategies


SDLC Phase: Testing
Artifact: Process that is working parallel to the process
of SDLC
Tasks Performed by QA: Reports are generated as the defects
are removed i.e Test Cases execution


SDLC Phase: Release
Artifact: Installation Shield, Installation Guides, User
Manuals, etc
Tasks Performed by QA: Document Review and testing of
Installation setup.