Quality Process Assessment (QPA)

Over the past decade, the discipline of structured software testing has made significant progress toward improving testing methods and processes.However, software testing is only one component in the product lifecycle. Without approaching software quality with a view of the entire product lifecycle, many opportunities for software quality improvement are overlooked. By focusing solely on testing, and associating QA with testing, many organizations are finding that their QA initiatives are falling short of their quality goals.

XBOSoft makes Quality as the primary focus and goal, rather than “testing”, with the premise that defects occur throughout the product lifecycle, not only in development.

Our QPA is based on XBO’s view of the Quality Lifecycle, including:

• Sales & Marketing-Product/Project Sponsor (intra-Company software)
• Product Management (Requirements)
• Development
• Quality Assurance
• Customer Service/Tech Support

XBOSoft, provides 'traditional' QA services to eliminate defects in the Development and QA phases of the Software Development Life Cycle. However, we believe that finding defects in the Development and QA stages is a critical start, but must not end there.

XBOSoft’s objective is to improve quality throughout the entire organization, in its people, its processes and products it produces. Using the QPA methodology and framework, XBOSoft works with its clients to improve quality and eliminate defects throughout the entire Quality Life Cycle. The methodologies in XBO’s QPA are designed to uncover root causes of defects throughout the organization, and provide a roadmap to software quality improvement. Want to find out how QPA can improve the quality of your software? contact us.