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APPLICATION OF SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE CONCEPTS AND PROCEDURES TO ENVIORNMENTAL RESEARCH INVOLVING SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Citation:
WRIGHT, R. S. APPLICATION OF SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE CONCEPTS AND PROCEDURES TO ENVIORNMENTAL RESEARCH INVOLVING SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT. In Proceedings, 25th Annual EPA Conference on Managing Environmental Quality Systems, Austin, TX, April 24 - 27, 2006. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, 2006.
Description:
As EPA’s environmental research expands into new areas that involve the development of software, quality assurance concepts and procedures that were originally developed for environmental data collection may not be appropriate. Fortunately, software quality assurance is a well-developed technical field in software engineering and its concepts and principles can be applied to software that is developed for environmental research. There are significant parallels between the two types of quality assurance and it should not be difficult to incorporate software quality assurance concepts and procedures into the EPA Quality System. This paper compares these two types of quality assurance and highlights their similarities and differences. Even readers who are not familiar with software quality assurance can use the techniques described in this paper to improve the quality of software developed for environmental research.