Templates and Checklists
Daniel Galin · 2018
Software development and maintenance processes involve the production and use of a multitude of documents. Two simple software quality assurance (SQA) tools, templates and checklists, could support the preparation of documents. The main contribution of templates to SQA are that it facilitates the process of preparing a document by saving the efforts required for planning the document structure; documents submitted for review are complete, thus common errors of overlooked topics are eliminated, and document reviews are facilitated as their structure is standard and well known among the reviewers. The main contributions of checklists to SQA are checklists support document quality as all relevant topics may be self-checked according to the checklist and quality issues to be reviewed are already listed. Updates of checklists are effected to improve current releases on the basis of team and external experience, and to cope with organizational changes, altered consumer tastes, and failure analysis results.