Software Quality Assurance Practices Towards Waterfall and Agile Information Systems Projects of BOI Registered Software Companies in Sri Lanka

Software quality assurance (SQA) practices play a significant role to deliver high quality software product by systematically monitoring and evaluating the entire software development life cycle. In Sri Lanka's emerging software industry should focus on the proper SQA practices. Unfortunately a large number of companies fail to achieve their project objectives due to poor SQA practices. To avoid such situations, it is important to identify key factors in SQA practices and take appropriate SQA practices. In this context, SQA practices are important to identify defects early, reducing post-release costs and ensuring software reliability, performance, and compliance with industry standards, ultimately enhancing user satisfaction, mitigating risks, and fostering sustainable growth and customer retention. Hence the main objective of this paper is to identify SQA practices towards Waterfall and Agile information systems (IS) projects of BOI registered software companies in Sri Lanka. Further, this paper helpful for identification of key factors in SQA practices for Waterfall and Agile IS projects of BOI registered software companies in Sri Lanka, while being able to identify challenges, identifies of SQA practices and provides valuable recommendations.