Quality Assurance – for some a well-known term while for others vaguely familiar words. As we see it, this is all about attaining the highest quality in everything we do, from developing a new product to implementing a new solution, or when upgrading a service by yourself, in cooperation with your partners, or, as an outsourcing. Quality Assurance is aware of everything you do.
Quality Assurance stands not only for assuring the quality, but also for unearthing it. Determining quality, through a testing and revisions process known as Quality Validation & Verification, is not enough to ensure the quality of the product and its potential.
Quality Assurance is an integral part of every IT project. Its main goal is to ensure that products fulfill or exceed customer expectations. It means assuring the quality of the final product or solution. Quality Assurance oversees all activities of the product’s life cycle, from design, development, production, installation, servicing, and documentation.
Quality Assurance builds on DMAIC model (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control), which determines:
- Definition (of process and product)
- Measurement (of process and product)
- Measurement results analysis (of process and product)
- Design of possible enhancements (of process and product)
- Management of improved process and product
- Quality Validation & Verification
The quality is determined by a state of features and capabilities of the final product. Quality Assurance states for assuring this quality, not only for uncovering it. Finding the quality out (which means testing and revisions – ie. Quality Validation & Verification) does not ensure quality of the product.
QVV is a complete and time-consuming process. Adastra’s quality managers and testers have an extended knowledge of QVV processes and methodologies. Our services range from the design of testing strategy, outsourcing of both, the full process or a part of test process, to team leasing of entire test teams or replenishing internal testing team of our customers.
- Testing - Software testing allows organizations to decrease risks connected with software development. Its purpose is not to increase product quality, as it is often understood (although it is necessary for quality improvements), but to measure delivered quality.