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Round Table Workshop: Improving SQA, SCM and Testing Processes Using Data Analytics
Software Quality Assurance (SQA), Configuration Management (SCM) and Testing are critical software development and Information Technology (IT) support functions. Test teams often establish one or more of these activities while gathering quantitative data from these functions, but then do not use analysis to improve process activities. A fundamental concept in ideals like total quality management (TQM) and statistical process control (SPC) improvement is understanding the data and then, how to modify activities or functions to become more agile or lean.
This session will begin with a short examination of differing types of data and respective analysis, then move on to a discussion of how to use data, SPC, and analytics, to work on real-world problems and class exercises. Participants are requested to bring 1 typed sheet describing their project and their data to be used in conjunction with small team exercises. The focus will be on helping attendees move forward in the real world by identifying data and analytics that can be used the next day at work. Sharing of ideas and concepts will be encouraged using:
• Analysis of data to aide decision making
• Organized brainstorming to help understand the data and what changes could/might be expected based on the analysis
• Selling the ideas with data to the team which could imply a certification, a compliance, following a specific method, etc.
• Data-driven quality and SCM to identify a "real story" or trend