Managing Quality Throughout the System Lifecycle

Concepts

The idea of developing and maintaining Software has been around for over sixty years. Methods and approaches for building software has greatly evolved over the last fifty years. Amazingly, some of the methods that existed fifty years ago are still in use by many software organizations. Regardless of what approach, methods, framework, or model we use, quality remains to be a very critical goal and managing it throughout the system lifecycle is becoming more challenging every day. This course reviews a number of existing methods for assuring quality of products as well as it introduces new approaches to assure and manage quality throughout the system lifecycle. Course attendees will engage in a brainstorming exercise to analyze quality goals as well as quality concerns in different development approaches such waterfall, V-Model, RAD, etc.

Participants will learn:

Upon completing this course, participants will have achieved the following objectives:

• Understand the full spectrum of quality of systems
• Understand the difference between defect prevention and defect detection
• Understand the difference between product quality and process quality
• Understand the difference between quality assurance and quality control
• Understand the different development approaches such as traditional, agile, iterative, Scrum, and SAFe
• Understand how to assess quality in each one of these approaches
• Understand how scenario-based approach can assure quality by preventing defects
• Understand How Application Lifecycle Management can provide better control of the system lifecycle

Outline

• Understanding quality
• Traditional Software Development Lifecycle models
  • The Water Fall Model
  • The V-Model
  • The RAD Model
• The Agile Development Framework
  • The Agile Manifesto
  • The Iterative nature
  • Incremental delivery
  • Xtreme Programming
  • The Scrum process
  • Continuous integration and Delivery
  • Test Driven Development
  • Acceptance Test Driven Development
• The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• The Scenario-Based Development and Testing
• Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
  • Traceability
  • Integrated ALM
  • Issue reports
  • Change Requests
  • Requirement versioning