Quality Control

As an independent professional organisation Zircon is able to bring a fresh and objective perspective to the whole process of ensuring consistency, completeness and correctness of the development process, software, its supporting documentation and its verification and validation.

Quality Planning & Audits

As part of the overall process of ensuring the quality of software, Verification & Validation activities form a key part. However, by themselves they do not guarantee software quality, as other considerations such as planning, traceability, configuration management etc are required.

Zircon is able to either determine or examine your, or your contractor’s, software quality procedures, their application and their suitability for a project to ensure that the appropriate level of quality has been determined and has been effectively applied.

Verification & Validation/Testing

Looking for consistency, completeness and correctness of software and its supporting documentation at all stages of the project lifecycle   As an independent professional organisation Zircon is able to bring a fresh and objective perspective to the whole process.

Zircon has expertise in devising test plans and test specification documents based on a range of test methodologies and techniques.  Testing by itself though does not guarantee software quality and Zircon is able to review and analyse other considerations such as planning, traceability and configuration control systems to ensure that delivered software meets the necessary quality considerations.

Zircon is able to provide an Independent V&V (IV&V) capability to ensure that V&V tasks are undertaken by a team that is separate from the core software development group and does not impact on the quality of the delivery.

Technical Reviews

Utilising our technical expertise to undertake code, design, specification and technology reviews builds on our verification & validation activities. It also addresses whether the processes, specifications and technologies used are suitable and meet industry best practice for the system under review including the in-service maintainability and supportability of the software.