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	process software quality assurance (SQA) If SQA plan does not exist then Task U.3.1 Establish a Software Quality Plan for the project U.3.1.1 Assign SQA responsibilities to project staff and/or to a separate SQA organization; U.3.1.2 Identify software engineering deliverables that will be evaluated for quality; U.3.1.3 Identify applicable standards, practices, conventions and measurements/metrics; U.3.1.4 Define the 'deliverable set' for the project and define criteria for assessing quality for each deliverable; U.3.1.5 Specify all SQA points throughout the software engineering process; U.3.1.6 Define quality issues reporting scheme; U.3.1.7 Define approach for formal technical reviews; U.3.2 Establish a quality function deployment (QFD) scheme; else skip endif U.3.3 Establish validation criteria for the software to be produced or modified; event trigger: work product has been completed or software process is underway repeat until (deliverables are complete) U.3.4 Conduct reviews and other SQA activities U.3.4.1 Collect quality metrics for all deliverables, based on the results of formal technical reviews; U.3.4.2 Conduct standards compliance audits (if applicable) to ensure that all applicable standards have been met; U.3.4.3 Initiate management/customer quality briefings to report on quality issues as they are encountered and reconciled; U.3.4.4 Perform subcontractor monitoring to ensure that the subcontractor complies with the Software Quality Plan; U.3.4.5 Update the project plan/risk mitigation, monitoring and management plan based on quality issues uncovered in other tasks; endrep U.3.5 Audit the software process end event endsubprocess software quality assurance (SQA) Use Browser "back" arrow or return to APM Process Design Language Description