The purpose of Process and Product Quality Assurance is to provide personnel and management with objective perception of projects related processes and turnarounds.

Quality assurance activities involves the following:

• examination of capturing explicit and implicit client requirements completeness and respective exactness
• evaluation of internal processes, producible results, exterior services against  correspondent process descriptions, standards and procedures
• documenting of identified noncompliance issues
• addressing of noncompliance issues and monitoring of issues elimination
• providing appropriate informing  of project team on the result of quality assurance activities

Quality assurance starts at project early phases to set up plans, internal processes, quality standards, activities and procedures that will allow the resulting software product to meet all the requirements.

MapInfo Corp.
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