WGU - C857 - Software Quality Assurance (definitions)(rated A)

WGU - C857 - Software Quality AssuCMMI -ANSWER Capability Maturity Model Integration Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) -ANSWER a proven set of global best practices that drives business performance through building and benchmarking key capabilities - project management, quality management, and engineering all glued together by process management review -ANSWER an evaluation of a life-cycle work product or project status to determine if there are any deviations from planned results and to recommend improvement peer reviews -ANSWER human-based testing rather than computer-based testing anomaly, defect -ANSWER any condition that deviates from expectations based on requirements, specification, design documents, standards, plans, and so on, or from someone's experiences Project Manager Review -ANSWER normally, a weekly project with the development staff called by the Project manager Milestone Review -ANSWER Represent meaningful points in the project's schedule and are documented in the project management plan, tracked, and reviewed. Buddy Check -ANSWER an informal verification technique in which the life-cycle work product is examined by the author and one other person Circulation Reviews -ANSWER A review that takes on attributes of both a buddy check and a walkthrough; they can be informal or formal; the life-cycle product is passed around to each reviewer who review it and either attaches comments, questions, and recommendations directly on the life-cycle work product or places them into a separate document. Inspections -ANSWER a formal verification technique in which life-cycle work products are examined in detail by a group of peers for the explicit purpose of detecting and identifying defects Inspection Team -ANSWER Usually consists of four people: moderator, programmer, designer, test specialist rance (definitions)(rated A)