Standards Development

Scope

This document establishes a QE framework that defines a QE process (see 5), QE principles (see 6) and QE techniques (see 7), which are collectively designed to enable efficient and effective delivery of high quality products, services, life cycle processes and teams. The QE process utilizes SQuaRE quality models to guide in the risk-based selection and application of QE techniques and the application of QE principles to one or more target entities. Target entities for QE are products, services, processes and teams.

This document is designed to be applicable to any life cycle. It is also designed to be applicable to the development of any product, including commercial-off-the-shelf products such as software or platform as a service, bespoke products, systems of systems, digital apps and artificial intelligence.

This document is designed to be useful to stakeholders that are part of the QE process. This can include (and not be limited to) suppliers, acquirers, quality engineering practitioners, project managers, programme managers, development managers, test managers, requirement engineers, business analysts, architects, designers, programmers, testers, release managers, support teams, service teams, operations teams, marketing professionals, customers and users.