Establishing SQA Processes and Their Coordination with Relevant Software Processes

The established software quality assurance (SQA) processes are intended to serve as infrastructure for the performance of SQA processes in the organization's software project and as a basis for software quality management by the organization. These infrastructure development activities are of a strategic nature for the organization. In new organizations, these infrastructure processes are intended to be completed before software contacts are signed. The organization's SQA processes should be defined and developed for all the SQA processes required for achieving adequate quality of software products and services. The data collected about the quality performance of software projects, including problems, enables the SQA function to identify process improvement opportunities and to plan their implementation. The coordination ensures that the SQA processes are performed in the appropriate stage of the software process and so contributes to the achievement of the required level of software product quality.