Evaluation of Processes and Development Environment for Conformance

This chapter discusses the activities performed to evaluate process assurance and development environment for conformance to requirements, standards, regulations, and conventions. The objective of the software quality assurance (SQA) function is to evaluate the planned project processes and processes being performed for their conformance with the project requirements, regulations, and conventions. The scope of process assurance activities includes all phases of the software life cycle. The software engineering environment provides assistance to the programmer through a work station equipped with compilers, program database systems, an interactive debugger, and other development tools. The objective of the SQA function is to evaluate the degree of conformance of software processes performed by subcontractors to the processes required by the acquirer and stated in the project contract. And it evaluates the skills, knowledge, competency, and abilities of the project assigned staff and determines the degree with which they fulfill the project professional requirements.