Quality Assurance in Software Engineering

[Gumbo Robot]

Try working in IT for a Japanese car manufacturer if you want to see it done properly.

[FatLazyContractor]

spray drying his B*llsh*t to use as fertilizer? It could cure world hunger.

He owns a Bull ?!!

[vetran]

Were you spray testing summat there?

spray drying his B*llsh*t to use as fertilizer? It could cure world hunger.

[FatLazyContractor]

My recent visit to a spray drier plant in Devon gave me first hand exposure to quality control in action in the context of a production line scenario and it got me thinking about quality and its relation to the software engineering process.

Were you spray testing summat there?

[Martin Scroatman]

My recent visit to a spray drier plant in Devon gave me first hand exposure to quality control in action in the context of a production line scenario and it got me thinking about quality and its relation to the software engineering process.

We have the quality controllers - the testers but we by no means have an integrated Quality Assurance function. Elements that could be incorporated into an integrated programme are largely carried out by disparate parties. I include among these code reviews, employment of code analysis tools, enforcement of unit testing and code coverage.

Should all these be incorporated into a separate body vis a vis manufacturing industry thus imposing a Quality Assurance layer on what is already arguably a complex administrative structure?

Indeed, is it wise to apply management processes taken from manufacturing industry where perhaps processes aren't readily transferable from the start stop nature of the production line to the environment of the software house?