Why should you standardize your Quality Assurance process

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Why should you standardize your Quality
Assurance process
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Why should you standardize your Quality Assurance
process

• They say quality is everyones responsibility.
• But what if everyone fulfills this responsibility
  in their own way, without following any
  pre-determined guidelines, industry best
  practices, or protocols?
• Due to such an individualized approach, the
  outcomes of the Quality Assurance process will
  not be aligned to the overall organizations
  objectives and goals.
• As each team or unit would use their choice of
  tools, platforms, and reporting mechanisms, there
  will be a lack of a standard way in which the QA
  outcomes can be measured and evaluated. And, a
  non-standard approach toward QA across an
  organization becomes an expensive affair.
• If we look at the common software development
  methodologies, from Waterfall to Agile to DevOps,
  there is still little importance given to the QA
  function. Especially with waterfall and Agile
  SDLCs, QA would come at the end of the
  development process.
• Having QA at the end, that too in a
  non-standardized way, results in two things
• One, code will have to be moved back and forth
  between the QA and dev teams for bug detection
  and fixing at the very last moment. Not only will
  it cause the production deadline to be pushed but
  will increase the cost of QA.

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Why should you standardize your Quality Assurance
process

• Two, as there will be no standard manner in which
  QA metrics will be evaluated, the real ROI of the
  process cannot be justified. This results in
  increased apprehension toward dedicating time to
  proper QA process, and more inclination toward
  skipping it altogether.
• QA standardization vs. flexibility
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• The debate between bringing flexibility into the
  QA function and standardizing it is a very
  important one, and needs to be addressed before
  we move any further.
• Both flexibility and standardization are
  essential for any function to be effective,
  whether its Dev, Ops, or QA.
• The right approach is to achieve the optimal
  balance between flexibility and standardization
  in a QA process. However, this may be quite
  tricky to do.
• One practice that organizations can follow is to
  standardize the processes around testing such as
  reporting and tool selection, while allowing
  flexibility in the actual testing process.
• Flexibility is necessary for QA practitioners to
  take a creative approach and uncover
  vulnerabilities find bugs for which a
  standardized approach may or may not suffice.

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Why should you standardize your Quality Assurance
process

Therefore, it is all about finding the right
balance. Best practices for Software Quality
Assurance Having best practices laid out in an
organization for software quality assurance
guides the testers as well as all the
stakeholders involved to the ideal path for
maximum QA efficiency. Some of the best
practices that should be followed for quality
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