Effective Processes for Quality Assurance [Paperback]

The book provides a common operating framework in which best practices, process improvements, and cost avoidance activities can be shared, and quality assurance responsibilities assigned. The framework unites quality assurance methods thereby promoting best practices for improvement processes execution and reduction of operational costs.

Boyd L. Summers is a retired Software Engineer for The Boeing Company and is a Software Technology Consultant for BL Summers Consulting LLC. Based in in Florence, Arizona, Summers is an author of two software technology books titled Software Engineering Reviews and Audits and Effective Methods for Software and Systems Integration. He writes articles for many software engineering journals and magazines. Topics include system design, software requirements, software design, software testing and evaluation, configuration management, Quality Assurance, process and product evaluations and the applied processes in Agile, Lean, and Six Sigma. He is a speaker and a board member of numerous software and quality control conferences around the world.

Driving innovation can reduce costs for companies, institutions, military programs, and successful businesses. Quality is key to successful innovation. Delivery of complex products must have high quality to reduce customer problems and defects. This book explains how to integrate Quality Assurance processes to produce compliant product management and gap analysis. It shows how Quality Assurance provides a common operating framework in which best practices, improvements, and cost avoidance activities can be shared.

Effective Processes for Quality Assurance emphasizes improving process execution and reducing operational costs. It also focuses on how Quality Assurance personnel must support companies, institutions, military programsl#+