Software Engineering

Participate in the SWE-IPT
. The senior representatives of the software test 
and evaluation organization should participate in the SWE-IPT to contribute 
to making constructive software requirements specifications decisions. These 
representatives bring their knowledge of techniques for replicating stressful 
computational loads, measurement of resource utilization, and other challenges 
associated with software testing to the SWE-IPT.
2. 
Identify software test and evaluation feasibility, challenges, constraints, and 
risks
. Lead representatives of software test and evaluation should identify chal-
lenges, constraints, and risks associated with the software test and evaluation 
effort. Representatives of software test and evaluation are essential to ensur-
ing that the software requirements, as specified, are testable within allocated 
resources and constraints.
3. 
Prepare the software test plan
. The software test and evaluation organization 
should prepare the software test plan to describe the strategy for conducting 
software acceptance testing. This plan should identify the preliminary test strat-
egy and test cases, the elements of the software test environment, and establish 
the test schedules based on the software specifications.
4. 
Revise the software quality assurance plan
. The software test and evaluation 
team should prepare the software quality assurance plan to describe the strategy 
for conducting software inspections and audits during software preliminary 
architecture definition.
5. 
Conduct software quality assurance inspection and audits
. Software quality 
inspections should be conducted periodically (during the software requirements 
definition stage) to evaluate the software requirements specifications and archi-
tectural artifacts. The following inspections should be conducted:
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  Inspection of the operational model
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  Inspection of the functional architecture
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  Inspection of the physical architecture
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  Inspection of the product requirements specification(s)
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  Inspection of the computing environment specification(s)
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  Inspection of the software interface specification(s)

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