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Software Quality
e purpose of the soware quality is to provide a common operat-
ing framework in which best practices, process improvements, and cost
avoidance activities can be shared and quality assurance responsibilities
can be assigned. e expected results from converging shared quality
best practices are improved process execution and reduction of opera-
tional costs. To be internally consistent, the denition Soware Quality
Assurance (SQA) will be used throughout this book. is denition does
not in any way prevent the applicability of soware programs known by
other names, such as Sow