Quality Assurance Practices in Continuous Delivery - an implementation in Big Data Domain

Abstract

This paper provides the details about the Quality Assurance practices and techniques to be followed by the QA professional (also called SQA-Software Quality Assurance) in continuous delivery mode of software development. QA professionals are responsible for the process definition, audit, training and other assurance activites in the project. The paper provides a QA model named 'ACID-QA' model which comprises of key practices which can be used by the QA professional in continuous delivery mode of software development. The objective of the 'ACID-QA' model is to provide a working model for the SQA which can be used during the planning, requirement, design, coding, testing, continuous integration, audit and release activities of the project. The paper provides an overview of each of the practice areas of the model in the further sections. This model is implemented in Big Data Hadoop File system and Map Reduce and it is found that the product quality issues found by SQA Professionals are improved by 100%. The audit findings are further detailed down in the paper.