Tutorials SQASoftware Quality Assurance is all about analysis. One of the major purposes of this discipline is to know the inner workings of an application. To do this, careful analysis has to be exercised at all times. Although there are programs and applications that aid in knowing the inner workings and the actual performance of an application, these are only numbers and they would be nothing if they are not used for analysis.
Every person proficient in SQA needs to have that analytic personality for them to be successful in this field. Although analysis is just part of the job description, every step of the way deals with the actual analysis of the problem.
In SQA it is not just one person that needs to have that analytic personality. Everyone has to be critical about the application, and the process of building the particular software. SQA managers even have a bigger role in keeping everyone together while communicating the SCM manager all the time.
Another analysis is needed in this communication. The team would also be composed of analyzers who are there to check the application piece by piece.
The importance of analysis is almost second to none in SQA. Companies who have invested so much in applications have to ensure that each line and each function in the written application have been analyzed before they are actually sent out to be used. The word of a bad application today spreads like wildfire and good news unfortunately is quite harder to get noticed. So everyone has to make sure that the program works well and careful analysis is the only way to do it.
SQA analysis is found in different areas of SQA. From the start to the end of the SQA process. Analysis has to be done most of the time.
An SQA process starts with planning and right on this stage, analysis is already made. The SQA team works with developers and other involved in the program before they start with what approach they should. Although most of the things are theoretical at this stage, SQA have been practiced for decades that a software and approach towards a certain application is already known.
Right after planning, the team will be working mostly on testing wherein they use the theories they have about the application. SQA actually is a combination of careful testing with analysis. The software and tools used in SQA only gives numbers. It is still up to the SQA team whether they have been built according to the specifications set by the company.
In testing, they would know what the problems are and if possible suggest solutions to the problems.
Planning and testing are the two stages of analysis the SQA team should take note. It is important for any team or even just the developers to sit down and plan on what should be done. Testing is native to the SQA team since this would give the team numbers and facts they need and would use this as their point of analysis.
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