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The software quality assurance plan

Every project must have a quality plan. The quality plan will be presented as a section in the project plan. It is drawn up by the project manager at the start of the project and should be agreed with the project sponsor.  

You would expect the quality plan to contain the following elements: 

Statement of the quality control organisation ƒ

 Identification of specific standards and methods that will be used ƒ

Definition of the quality control procedures; this is aligned to the Work Breakdown Structure ƒ Specification of quality milestones ƒ

Detail of unusual features ƒ

Change control and configuration management ƒ

Detail of acceptance procedures ƒ

Specification of quality assurance procedures 

The software quality assurance plan (SQAP), like the software configuration plan, is also part of the overall software project development plan. 

The SQAP documents which resources are needed, how they should be used and which standards and procedures will be applied during the project. 

The SQAP then becomes the mandate for the quality assurance group during project development. The issuance of this plan is the responsibility of the project manager, though in large projects it will usually be delegated to the quality assurance manager.  

The SQAP may appear as a separate document or as a section within the project development plan, and may include the configuration management plan (if this has not been documented separately).  

Table 5 contains a list of the main subjects covered in the SQAP. When any of these subjects is covered elsewhere, such as in the software configuration management plan (SCMP), it can be omitted from the SQAP and replaced by a pointer to the document in which it is covered.  

However, the SCMP and the SQAP are concerned with different aspects of the controlled items. The SCMP is primarily concerned with the format of controlled items while the SQAP is more involved with the contents of controlled items.  

The SQAP must cover subcontractors, vendors and suppliers, irrespective of whether or not these external entities have their own quality assurance organization.  

In any project, the quality of external components is ultimately the concern of the project manager and the SQA organization. When a system fails, it usually makes little difference whether the failure is due to an externally developed component or an in-house developed component. 

The plans for supervising these external groups must be adapted to the type of external components being provided (off the shelf or new development) and the type of organization (do they have their own quality assurance organization?).