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What are the objectives of software quality assurance?

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Two definitions Google found for me.

Software quality assurance (or SQA for short) is the ongoing process that ensures the software product meets and complies with the organization’s established and standardized quality specifications.

Software quality assurance (SQA) is a means and practice of monitoring all software engineering processes, methods, and work products to ensure compliance against defined standards.[1] It may include ensuring conformance to standards or models, such as ISO/IEC 9126 (now superseded by ISO 25010), SPICE or CMMI.[2]
It includes standards and procedures that managers, administrators or developers may use to review and audit software products and activities to verify that the software meets quality criteria which link to standards.
SQA encompasses the entire software development process, including requirements engineering, software design, coding, code reviews, source code control, software configuration management, testing, release management and software integration. It is organized into goals, commitments, abilities, activities, measurements, verification and validation. (from Wikipedia).

Doesn’t seem something that you can offshore while doing the development yourself. It has to be fully integrated in the whole software development cycle.

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That’s a fun subject.

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Sometimes folk confuse objectives with actual achievements.

There’s a lot of SQA in Windows and games but they still ship before the bugs and features are complete.

Do you know why?

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Money. If you need to know why stuff ships with bugs, it’s money and time.

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Quality Assurance Objective

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As per my Knowledge

-To reduce the level of risk of insufficient software quality
-To find defects in the software product
-To build confidence in the quality level of the test object
-To verify the fulfillment of all specified requirements
-To evaluate the work products such as requirements, design, user stories,
and code

Doesn’t seem to be what happens in reality.

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Yesterday I played a game that had cost millions to develop and has been worked on for years yet, buggy!

Let’s not talk about Apple and Microsoft apps and OSes either.

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thanks for sharing.

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