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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Review the quality standards
  2. Determine development quality issues
  3. Review the specific quality areas

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to:

review and discuss the organisation's quality standards relevant to software development

determine and document quality standards and procedures that support the development of defect-free products to meet client requirements

review plans, testing processes and documentation related to the quality of software development to ensure that client needs are met.

Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided at least once.


Knowledge Evidence

To complete the unit requirements safely and effectively, the individual must:

describe the client business domain

summarise industry-accepted hardware and software products

describe input and output drivers

identify and describe operating systems

identify and describe:

two or more procedural languages

three or more object-oriented languages

describe quality assurance practices, and the identification of standards

explain real-time programming techniques

describe software application measuring and estimating methodologies

describe software development and configuration management processes

explain the process of software metrics development.