Goals of SQA

The software development is a complex process full risks. There are technical risks such as software will not perform as intended or be too hard to operate, modify, and/or maintain; there are programmatic risks such as the project will overrun cost or schedule. The goals of SQA is to reduce these risks by:

• Appropriately monitoring the software and the development process.
• Ensuring full compliance with standards and procedures for software and process.
• Ensuring that inadequacies in product, process, or standards are brought to management's attention so that they can be fixed.

SQA is not responsible for producing quality products or for making quality plans. They are responsible for auditing the quality actions and for alerting management to any deviations.