Difference Between Sqa, Sqc, Sqm

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Were you starting to wonder what the differences between Software Quality Assurance (SQA), Software Quality Control (SQC) and Software Quality Managment (SQM) were?? What about this: Does the Testing Center of Excellence manage all of these areas?? Were you even wondering what ANY of these acronyms even mean?? Let me clear up the confusion. Here is the OFFICIAL “TCoE” answer to the above questions: Question 1 – What are the differences between SQA, SQC and SQM? OK so understand this part first: SQM is more or less an UMBRELLA term that INCLUDES: SQA and SQC – and “YES!” The Testing Center of Excellence is responsible for this area. (refer to the TCoE Library page on the right Navigation bar – our Team Charter is there that defines the management of quality for the Strategic Business Solutions Organization). Now, SQA or Software Quality Assurance is NOT managed by the TCoE alone – in this area we have support. Software Quality Assurance contains a combination of the following – and next to each, I will state the responsible party: So it contains: o Standards, regulations, and procedures to be followed when writing code during the software development lifecycle – The Architecture Center of Excellence owns these standards. See the AcoE blog listed in the right navigation pane à o A knowledge base of best practices for the verification, evaluation and confirmation of the software that’s been developed, during the Testing Lifecycle. – The Testing Center of Excellence owns these best practices. When performing Application Audits for Quality we refer to the AcoE standards for software development and also when doing various methods of testing. o Off-the-shelf software tools selected to apply the above – The Testing Center of Excellence owns the selection of our Testing Tool —BUT— in conjunction

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