Compliance and Audit

GoR institutions need to comply with these policies and guidelines of software testing by following the recommendations for each stage of testing. Where it is not possible to follow a particular guideline, the reasons should be clear.  For large projects, the testing process may be subject to audit by internal or external audit teams.

Some key objectives of Audits include:

Monitoring of volumes of defects found during early test phases (e.g. System Testing) vs later phases (User Acceptance testing)

The key objective here being to identify any defects found in UAT that should have been discovered earlier and putting in place mechanism to reduce future occurrences of such defects being found at this late stage.

Coverage of business requirements in testing (spanning all phases),100 % coverage of agreed baselined business requirements across the whole testing process should be audited unless there is a specific reason why a requirement cannot be tested. RISA will audit the GoR institution to verify if all steps involved in guidelines were respected.