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• Testing and QA

Testing and QA

Overview

Quality Assurance (QA) is the application of planned, systematic quality activities to ensure that the project will employ all processes needed to meet requirements.

Guidelines

Introduction to our practices and guidelines

• Effective Testing for IT Services Software Projects

Roles and Responsibilities

Outline of typical roles and responsibilities associated with Testing and QA. Who is responsible for various aspects and perhaps a bit about organizing the effort from testing to identification to revisions to validating the fix to implementing in production.

Glossary of Terms

The Glossary of Terms includes terms that are:

• Unique or nearly unique to project management, including common testing and QA terminology.
• Not unique to project management but used differently or with narrower meaning in project management than in general everyday use.

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