Work Product (Artifact): Quality Assurance Plan |
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This artifact provides a clear view of how product, artifact, and process quality are to be assured. It contains the Review and Audit Plan, and references a number of other artifacts developed during the Inception phase. It is maintained throughout the project. |
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Purpose
To provide a single point of reference on the topic of quality for the project.
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Main Description
The Quality Assurance Plan contains the Review and Audit Plan, and references a number of other artifacts
developed during the Inception phase. It is maintained throughout the project.
It is a process-oriented work product and highlights those elements of the RUP that are the
contributors to achievement of quality objectives. The Quality Assurance Plan will not contain details of the
techniques, criteria, metrics, and so on, of the peer reviews and evaluations whose focus is product. It requires, as a
matter of compliance with the RUP, the details of product quality evaluation to be provided in the Evaluation Plan
section of the Software Development Plan and in the Test Plan.
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Tailoring
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The Quality Assurance Plan contains information that may be covered to a greater or lesser extent by other plans.
The following approaches can be used to handle this potential overlap:
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Reference the content in another plan.
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Provide the overview in another plan and provide greater detail in this plan. References from these other
plans to the Quality Assurance Plan may also be useful. This often works well on large projects with a
separate organization responsible for quality assurance.
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Tailor the document sections to cover only those areas that are not covered elsewhere.
The following is a mapping of Quality Assurance Plan sections to work products that may contain complementary
information:
Quality Assurance Plan Section
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Complementary Work product
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Definitions, Acronyms, and Abbreviations
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Glossary
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Management
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Software Development Plan
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Documentation
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Development Case
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Standards and Guidelines
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Development Case
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Metrics
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Development Case, Measurement Plan
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Review and Audit Plan
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Development Case, Configuration Management Plan
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Evaluation and Test
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Development Case, Software Development Plan (Evaluation Plan), Test Plan
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Problem Resolution and Corrective Action
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Problem Resolution Plan
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Tools, Techniques and Methodologies
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Development Case, Software Development Plan (Methods, Tools and
Techniques)
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Configuration Management
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Configuration Management Plan
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Supplier and Subcontractor Controls
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Software Development Plan (Subcontractor Management
Plan, Infrastructure Plan)
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Quality Records
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Configuration Management Plan
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Training
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Software Development Plan
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Risk Management
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Risk Management Plan
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Some projects may choose not to produce a Quality Assurance Plan and may cover any necessary information in these other
plans.
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