THE ORGANIZATION OF THE SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCESS

This paper discusses and analyzes approaches tothe prob-lem of so.)Ctware quality assurance. The approaches offered in the fiterature usually focus on "designing in"quality. This can be a productive approach, but there are also benefits to be gained by establishing an independent quality assurance (QA) group to review all aspects of the software develop-ment process. This paper discusses the organization of such a group using the function o fan operations auditing roup as a model