SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE CONSIDERATIONS

Very few articles dealing with software quality assurance have been published over the past few years; these have been primarily from the military and medical industries. It is interesting to note that many of the topics included or suggested in these articles are presently not in use and the concepts are "relatively unknown". Effective statistical techniques are basically lacking unfortunately. The "real key" is to understand that software quality assurance is " 10 years behind the hardware" as stated by an SWQA department manager in a large military products (DOD) facility. Thus the intent of these offerings is to share some ideas in a very complex and challenging arena; this concept, this methodology has not been able to keep up with the rapid advances required of it and imposed by the primary systems.