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Identifying SQA Issues

By Exforsys | on April 23, 2008 |
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Identifying SQA Issues

Software Quality Assurance is a good practice that every large scale business should employ. IT related businesses have never hesitated to use SQA to ensure that the application they will release for their users or sell to their customers will live up to their expectations.

Identifying SQA Issues

Software Quality Assurance is a good practice that every large scale business should employ. IT related businesses have never hesitated to use SQA to ensure that the application they will release for their users or sell to their customers will live up to their expectations.

On the other hand, there are companies that has opted to forgo with the usage of SQA and relied on application testers just to make sure the application will never have internal errors. The SDLC on the other hand, will ensure the development of the application will work as planned.

Like other development plans, there are issues why developers and companies do not use SQA.

SQA Cost

This is the main reason why small scale companies hesitated to use SQA as part of their development plan. SQA is a different entity that works separately from the development team. Hiring another set of developers will mean another set of people to pay for. Developing software takes months to take and if you are a small-scaled company you will definitely have to cut costs.

This problem cannot just be answered with more money and resources. Unfortunately, the developers have to face the fact that SQA cannot just be implemented when everyone has to cut costs. Only the SDLC and the testing team could compensate what the SQA is lacking.

SQA Complexity

Years ago, an application could be easily built by a single developer and let the whole world enjoy them. Today, a highly efficient application would take years for a single developer to develop. By the time it could be integrated and implemented, it is already outdated.

The point is, software today is very complicated that team after team will be working on developing a single application and will take them months to develop. SQA has already been here for years and there are models that are not as good as it was.

To answer this concern the SQA team should carefully use CASE tools. These tools could easily summarize the functions. They ensure consistency in the evaluation of the application. That includes documentation of every stage of development.

SQA Integration

This is one of the many concerns of the SQA models today. Because application development has been very rapid, the standardization of the application might not be the same as it was five years ago. The result for this is that although it has been deemed as an application developed with SQA, the type of SQA might not live up according to what is expected.

The standardization models might ensure that the application developed ten years ago is good but it might work today. Fortunately, this issue was answered with the development of new standardizations. This ensured that the application was developed according to the plan and today’s need. Today’s standards usually come with set of tools with an understanding that the application is more complex than it was.

Demand for Faster Development

More than ever, the market for better software is increasing and everyone wants to sell and developing something new. The software has to be developed faster more than every to be ahead of everyone. Complimenting that speed is also the increasing complexity of the application.

It is not only the developers that have this problem of rapid software development but also the SQA as well. They have to act really fast and decide whether or not the application is worthy to be released for operation. If that was the case 10 years ago, everyone will have a very hard time. Checking the application used to be manual and if that will be the case today, everyone will definitely have a very hard time approving the application.

Today, there are tools that have great testing capabilities that could work faster like any other manual testers. That does not include the stability the application could offer. Formal verification could be attained using this application since it has been sanctioned by standards to work. The development of the application for formal verification has ease up the demand

Defective Software

After months and moths of development and manual coding, it is very frustrating when your application is disregarded and has to start all over again. SQA has that function to be a little bit perfectionists and anything bad is disregarded. Considering the need to develop an application rapidly, everyone has to complete the application really fast. Perfection and speed is always a requirement for SQA and have been one of the biggest reasons why developers and small scale companies have opted not to use SQA too much. They have limited themselves to code testing and SDLC.

Today, that problem is addressed with the aid of libraries. There are many libraries today that can easily be used to develop the application. The good thing about it is that they do not have to code. The well known libraries can easily be used in an application and in no time the application could be used and tested.

SQA has been tested on these applications and have passed so many times. Although there are no frameworks that have been approved to bypass SQA, they would almost pass the SQA as soon as they are tested. What’s lest is just the documentation and proper commenting in each function.

These are the issues that have been holding back the small scale companies. However, there are now solutions to these concerns that small scale companies does not need to have second doubts in using SQA for developing a good looking and well functioning application. Besides the monetary consideration, every issue that surrounds the SQA has been addressed.

One of the biggest reasons why SQA could now be used by any company is automation. CASE tools can easily gauge if the application has enough software or user requirements. Although there are things that the SQA team should work on themselves, automation has helped application to be the best it could be. Testing tools has also developed and it has not checked the codes only but also on stresses. Anything that concerns around SQA has already been address so anyone could easily use this service.

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