1st Edition

Effective Processes for Quality Assurance

By Boyd L. Summers Copyright 2019
152 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Auerbach Publications

152 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Auerbach Publications

152 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Auerbach Publications

Driving innovation can reduce costs for companies, institutions, military programs, and successful businesses. Quality is key to successful innovation. Delivery of complex products must have high quality to reduce customer problems and defects. This book explains how to integrate Quality Assurance processes to produce compliant product management and gap analysis. It shows how Quality Assurance... Read more



List of Figures



List of Tables



Preface



Acknowledgments



Summary



Author





Chapter 1 Introduction



Chapter 2 Quality Assurance Methods



Chapter 3 Measure Benefits of Quality Assurance Process Improvement



Chapter 4 Quality Assurance Performance and Improvement



Chapter 5 Answer Questions from Management and Employees



Chapter 6 Manage Risk Management



Chapter 7 Quality Assurance Improvement with Metrics



Chapter 8 Quality Assurance Framework



Chapter 9 Quality Assurance Process Improvement



Chapter 10 Effective Processes for Quality Assurance



Chapter 11 Quantitative Process Performance and Commitments



Chapter 12 Understanding the Quality Assurance Direction



Chapter 13 Military Aerospace and Defense



Chapter 14 Quality Assurance Plans



Chapter 15 Quality Assurance for Customers and Suppliers



Chapter 16 Supporting Software Configuration Management





Appendix A



Index

Biography

Boyd L. Summers is a retired Software Engineer for The Boeing Company and is a Software Technology Consultant for BL Summers Consulting LLC. Based in in Florence, Arizona, Summers is an author of two software technology books titled Software Engineering Reviews and Audits and Effective Methods for Software and Systems Integration. He writes articles for many software engineering journals and magazines. Topics include system design, software requirements, software design, software testing and evaluation, configuration management, Quality Assurance, process and product evaluations and the applied processes in Agile, Lean, and Six Sigma. He is a speaker and a board member of numerous software and quality control conferences around the world.