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Quality
Customer Service
In every
Quality Customer Service it is offering your customers what they
want, when they want it and being willing to adapt to their needs.
There are many companies which have many great examples of small and
very small companies who deliver amazing Quality Customer
Service.
Software
Quality Customer Service involves the entire software development
process-monitoring and improving the process, making sure that any
agreed-upon standards and procedures are followed, and ensuring that
problems are found and dealt with. It is oriented to
'prevention'.
Moreover,
software Quality Customer Service & testing involves operation
of a system or application under controlled conditions and
evaluating the results (e.g., 'if the user is in interface A of the
application while using hardware B, and does C, then D should
happen'). The controlled conditions should include both normal and
abnormal conditions. Testing should intentionally attempt to make
things go wrong to determine if things happen when they shouldn't or
things don't happen when they should. It is oriented to
'detection'.
Organizations
vary considerably in how they assign responsibility for software
Quality Customer Service and testing. Sometimes they're the combined
responsibility of one group or individual. Also common are project
teams that include a mix of testers and developers who work closely
together, with overall software Quality Customer Service processes
monitored by project managers. It will depend on what best fits an
organization's size and business
structure.
A lot depends
on the size of the organization and the risks involved. For large
organizations with high-risk (in terms of lives or property)
projects, serious management buy-in is required and a formalized
software Quality Customer Service process is necessary. Where the
risk is lower, management and organizational buy-in and software
Quality Customer Service implementation may be a slower,
step-at-a-time process. QA processes should be balanced with
productivity so as to keep bureaucracy from getting out of hand.
For small
groups or projects, a more ad-hoc process may be appropriate,
depending on the type of Quality Customer Service and projects. A
lot will depend on team leads or managers, feedback to developers,
and ensuring adequate communications among customers, managers,
developers, and testers.
The most value
for effort will be in:
- Requirements
management processes, with a goal of clear, complete, testable
requirement specifications embodied in requirements or design
documentation and
- Design
inspections and code inspections.
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