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What's the role of documentation in QA? Printed From: One Stop Testing Category: Quality Assurance @ OneStopTesting Forum Name: Defect Management@ OneStopTesting Forum Discription: Defect is the worst Nightmare of any Testing Engineer and is basically the elimination of bugs in software and flaws in hardware. URL: http://forum.onestoptesting.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=731 Printed Date: 25Dec2024 at 5:15pm Topic: What's the role of documentation in QA? Posted By: appurva Subject: What's the role of documentation in QA? Date Posted: 09Apr2007 at 10:01pm What's the role of documentation in QA? Critical. (Note that documentation can be electronic, not necessarily paper, may be embedded in code comments, etc.) QA practices should be documented such that they are repeatable. Specifications, designs, business rules, inspection reports, configurations, code changes, test plans, test cases, bug reports, user manuals, etc. should all be documented in some form. There should ideally be a system for easily finding and obtaining information and determining what documentation will have a particular piece of information. Change management for documentation should be used if possible. What's the big deal about requirements'? One of the most reliable methods of ensuring problems, or failure, in a large, complex software project is to have poorly documented requirements specifications. Requirements are the details describing an http://www.onestopfaqs.com/faqs/1624/# -

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