Project Support Function PM Planning Organizing Staffing Monitoring

Project Support Function PM Planning Organizing Staffing Monitoring Controlling and Leading Project Support Functions Monitoring Controlling

Project Support Function Non-technical support • Legal counseling • Document publication • Administrative support Technical support • Testing • Configuration control • Quality assurance

Project Support Function Software Configuration Control Is a management support function that supports the many different activities related to changes to the software product • Program code changes • Requirements and design changes • Version release changes

Project Support Function Software Quality Assurance (SQA) The main responsibility of the QA engineer is enabling, facilitating, guiding, and leading the organization to higher levels of product quality Quality views Objective views Subjective views

Project Support Function SQA Quality Myth • • Quality cost money Software failure are unavoidable Quality control is always an external function Quality control is an activity that occurs toward the end of a project • QA personnel are pain

Project Support Function Software Testing Examination and evaluation of an object in order to determine the existence of certain properties. The process of determining the degree to which software satisfies requirement and achieves customer satisfaction. Software test plans are derived from the project’s requirements specifications Independent test group

Project Support Function Software Testing Unit testing Integration testing Subsystem testing Regression testing Alpha testing Beta testing Acceptance testing

Project Support Function Objective of Software Testing Good system Bad system Requirement Well-written requirement (good test plan) Good test procedures Efficient testers