What is the importance of testing and quality assurance?
Quality assurance (QA) focuses on measuring and examining the quality of design, development, enhancements and maintenance of processes and products to make sure they conform to requirements, standards, and procedures set forth in a project. Testing, on the other hand, may keep an eye on the processes and often owns them, but is far more concerned looking at ways to break systems. Testers are to observe what systems do and to report on the level of quality as well as any serious issues they encounter.
How to incorporate testing and QA into your project?
When trying to bring QA into your work you can follow these five phases;
Assessment
Assessment process consists of market research and a series of structured workshops that the client teams participate in to discuss and analyze the project objectives and develop a strategic plan for the effort. The products of these meetings, combined with market research, form the basis for the final output of the assessment: a tactical plan for realizing specific business and project objectives.
Planning
In the Planning phase, the team defines specific system requirements and develops strategies around the information architecture (static content and information flows) and the business functions that will be addressed.
Design
During the Design phase, the team identifies all of the necessary system components based on the requirements identified during the Assessment and Planning phases. The team then creates detailed design specifications for each component and for the associated physical data requirements.
Development
During the Development phase, the team constructs the components specified during the Design Phase.
Implementation
In the Implementation phase, the team focuses on testing and review of all aspects of the system. The team will also develop system documentation and a training or market test plan in preparation for system launch.