Quality Assurance Role

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Quality Assurance Role

There are Two Kinds of Quality

Software quality associated with usefulness for a particular purpose. This kind of quality is client centrist and is what they are paying for
. Software quality is also defined over non-functional requirements as reliability, usability, efficiency, maintainability and portability. These are costs spent on the software provider side that clients rarely even think to much about but save the software provider cost in the long run.
This set of characteristics is defined in the international standard for the evaluation of software product quality ISO/IEC 9126-1:2001 ISO01.


it is important for each software development project to define its specific meaning of software quality during the planing phase. On the one hand the quality of a software is adequate if all the functional requirements are met. On the other hand the softwares quality is also defined over non-functional requirements as reliability, usability, efficiency, maintainability and portability. This set of characteristics is defined in the international standard for the evaluation of software product quality ISO/IEC 9126-1:2001 ISO01. F