SQE Services of STQC IT offers following services as part of Independent Verification & Validation:

1. Software Reviews
2. Software Application Testing & Evaluation
3. Software Audits
4. Trainings

A. Software Reviews:

A.1 Review of Software Documentation:

• Software Requirements (System Study Report, Gap Analysis Report, RFP, SRS, etc.)
• Software Development (High Level (Architecture) Design Document, Low Level (Detailed) Design Document), etc.)
• Software User Documentation (Installation Guide, User Manual, System Manual, etc.)

A.2 Review of Software Artifacts/ Work Products:

• Solution Architecture Review
• Static Analysis
• Code Review

B. Software Application Testing & Evaluation

B.1 Software Functional Testing & Evaluation:

The software application is tested against functional requirements & quantitative evaluated of functionality characteristic.

B.2 Software Non-Functional Testing & Evaluation:

The software application is tested for Usability, Efficiency, Reliability, Security, Maintainability, Portability & Documentation requirements and quantitative evaluated of non-functional characteristics.

Testing & evaluation of software application for integration, interoperability, scalability, compatibility, load & volume etc. is also undertaken.

B.3 Service Level Agreement (SLA) Measurement:

• Service Related Parameters
• Technology Related Performance Parameters
• Technology Related Maintenance Parameters
• Availability Parameters

C. Software Audits

C.1 Software Process Audit:

• Software Requirements Processes
• Software Development Processes
• Software Operational Processes
• Software Support Processes

Audit is done as per international standards/ Best practices such as ISO/IEC 12207, IEEE Software Engineering Standards, ISO 15504 (SPICE)

C.2 IT Infrastructure Audit:

• Hardware Audit
• Software Configuration Audit
• Deployed Solution Architecture Audit
• Gateway Audit