Quality Assurance, Testing, & Research
Business Functions
Quality Assurance and Testing focuses on proactive
assistance and not inspection.
Quality Assurance and Testing provides leadership and support for
quality information systems for the State. They assist all areas
of OIR,
State ISM departments
and vendors in creating an excellent quality environment.
The business functions of the Quality Assurance and Testing section
are:
Quality Assurance
- Development
of a Quality Management Plan - QA consultants facilitate quality
planning, including setting quality objectives, defining processes,
and identifying measurements and success criteria.
- Quality
Assessment - QA consultants conduct quality assurance assessments
of process performance against planned objectives and criteria.
- Standards - QA monitors the completeness, adequacy,
and effectiviness of State Information Technology standards.
- Measurement - QA consultants establish
and monitor measurement programs for systems development projects
or existing processes.
Testing
- Performance Testing - QA&T consultants conduct pre-production
load and stress tests of an agency’s applications. The consultants
collaborate with the agency to identify types of transactions to be
tested determine number of users to simulate, and develop scripts.
QA&T consultants also execute the tests and produce findings and
recommendation reports.
- Functional Testing - QA&T consultants coach agencies in planning
and implementing functionality tests of their applications if the agency
owns the testing tools. QA&T can also plan and implement testing
projects for agencies that do not own the tools.
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