Question

What is the prerequisite of a formal review? What you think user and system engineering team involves in which audit:

A- Functional configuration audit (FCA) or in

B- Physical configuration audit (PCA)

Give some reasons for your answer.

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Answer 1

Prerequisite of formal review:

Formal reviews are used in the software testing. It is more structured and regulated process. Prerequisite of formal review:

• Planning: In this stage, the review leader (also called as moderator) checks all the document and if these documents are passed by the moderator. Then only these documents are sent for the further processing.
• Preparation: in this stage the reviewer checks the complete document according to the rules, requirement criteria, and procedures provided.
• Review meeting: it includes three stages:

1. Logging: every defect of the developed document should be logged. There are three category of logging reviews critical, major, and minor.
2. Discussion: all the issues of document can be discussed and handled in this phase. It is the responsibility of the moderator to solve and clear all the issues of the client.
3. Decision: decision can be made by the participants that the created document is meeting all their needs and requirements or not.

• Rework: in this stage the decided rework is judged by the author to check that is there really a need of rework on the same data or not.
• Follow- up: in this stage the author needs to action against all the defects assured by the moderator.

User and system engineering team involves in both the process of functional configuration audit (FCA) and Physical configuration audit (PCA). Supporting reasons are given below:

Functional configuration audit (FCA):

This configuration auditing is done for checking that the developed software is according to the requirement criteria and if anything is missing then modifying the program according to the requirement. The developed software can be appropriate and according to the client requirement. In this auditing, client feedback is also considered as important. If the developed software gets the positive response from the user, then it is considered that the developed product is worthy and can fulfil the requirements of the user. So, for validating the user needs by using the Configuration Item (document) we need software developer and user for taking feedback.

Physical configuration audit (PCA):

It is the formal examination of the developed software against the technical document. the main purpose of the physical configuration audit is to revalidate or reverify the product after the completion of the FCA. PCA is one of the practices used in the software configuration management. In the software configuration management the team members are software developers or engineers, project manager, and user etc..