CSS CS Optional — Paper-I, Section-B, Topic V.

🔥 Frequency: 2 of last 7 papers (2021, 2025) — often via CMMI.

🔑 What SQA Is

• Process-oriented, preventive — ensures product AND process follow standards.
• Distinct from testing (product-oriented, detective — finds defects after the fact).

📌 SQA Plan Defines

• Applicable standards
• Review/audit procedures
• Documentation requirements
• Metrics (e.g. defect density)

📌 SQA Activities

• Technical reviews, audits, standards enforcement, metrics tracking — continuous, across whole SDLC.

📌 5 Quality Attributes (name at least 5)

• Reliability — correct over time
• Usability — easy to learn/use
• Efficiency — good use of resources
• Maintainability — easy to modify/extend
• Portability — moves to new environment easily
• (also: Security, Scalability, Testability)

📌 CMMI — 5 Maturity Levels (in order)