By performing the below activities, Youtap ensures that the software meets the required standards of quality, reliability, usability, security, and performance, ultimately contributing to the overall success of the software project.
Planning - Project Plan, Risk Management Plan
Efficient Plans to guide the software development activities and mitigate project risks.
Scope of the System
Clearly defining the scope of the system ensures that development efforts are focused on delivering the intended features and functionalities, thereby reducing scope creep and maintaining product quality. Functional requirements specify what the system should do, while non-functional requirements specify how it should do it and the quality attributes it should exhibit.
Requirements Walkthrough
Reviewing and validating software requirements with stakeholders to ensure clarity, completeness, and accuracy before development begins.
Define the Quality Goals
Establishing clear quality goals helps set expectations and provides a benchmark for measuring the success of the project in terms of quality.
Security Standards
Adhering to security standards helps protect the software from vulnerabilities and threats, ensuring data integrity, confidentiality, and availability.
Root Cause Analysis
Investigating and addressing the root causes of critical defects helps prevent recurrence, improving software reliability and maintainability.
Code Reviews
Conducting peer reviews of source code ensures early identification and correction of defects, enhances code quality, readability, and maintainability, and ensures adherence to coding standards and best practices.
Review of Test-Cases
Regular reviews of test cases to ensure they accurately reflect requirements, cover relevant scenarios, and are effectively designed for testing.
Traceability
Establishing traceability between requirements, design, code and helps ensure helps ensure alignment and completeness, facilitating effective change management and risk mitigation.
Priority Matrix
Prioritizing tasks and issues based on their impact and urgency into various levels like P1, P2, P3 helps stakeholders understand the criticality of the item, allocate resources effectively and address critical issues promptly, improving overall software quality.
Risky/ Critical Areas Testing
Focusing testing efforts on high-risk or critical areas of the software helps identify and mitigate potential weaknesses, ensuring robustness and reliability.
Test Execution Percentage
Monitoring the percentage of test cases executed to ensure adequate test coverage, reducing the likelihood of undiscovered defects and identify areas requiring additional testing.
Lesson Learnt
Documenting and sharing lessons learned from past experiences helps identify areas for improvement and avoid repeating mistakes, leading to continuous improvement in software quality.
Change Control Board
As requirements evolve or change over time, it's essential to manage changes effectively. Change control processes, including requirements prioritization, impact analysis, and stakeholder communication, help ensure that modifications are properly assessed and implemented without compromising the integrity of the software.
Change Advisory Board
A Change Advisory Board (CAB) is a group responsible for assessing and approving changes to the production environment.
Audits
Conducting regular audits helps ensure compliance with quality standards, regulations, and best practices, identifying areas for improvement and maintaining software quality over time.
Agile Practices
Embracing agile methodologies promotes iterative development, frequent testing, continuous feedback, adaptation to changing requirements and priorities leading to faster delivery of high-quality software that meets evolving customer needs.