Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments.
This will be the foundation for future discussions with your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Library Research Assignment
The next major phase in software development life cycle (SDLC) is testing. Quality assurance methods and testing help support this phase.
Investigate the library and Internet for information on the various tests that should be performed at different junctures of development and integration.
Research software-related quality assurance tools as well.
Compare and contrast at least 4 tests that occur between the span of development and final integration into a production environment (description of each and how they support overall quality of the system or application).
Why is software quality assurance important in system development?
What are some of the software quality assurance methods that you would embrace for ensuring quality in the application that you are developing, and why?
Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with a reply of 100-200 words about their Primary Task
Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:
What did you learn from your classmate's posting?
What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates' postings?