Quality assurance of the UV irradiances of the UV-B Monitoring and Research Program: the Mauna Loa test case

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melina Maria Zempila ◽  
John M. Davis ◽  
Maosi Chen ◽  
Elizabeth Olson ◽  
George T. Janson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Mauna Loa

ASCO research program quality assessment tool: Basics for a quality community-based research site.

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (30_suppl) ◽  
pp. 97-97
Author(s):  
Patricia A. Hurley ◽  
Renee Yvonne Smith ◽  
Nicholas J. Robert
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Quality Assurance Program ◽  
Internal Quality ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Minimum Standards ◽  
Research Programs ◽  
Internal Quality Assurance

97 Background: In 2008, ASCO published a statement to identify minimum standards and exemplary attributes of clinical trial sites. Recommendations were made to assist with the development and implementation of high-quality research programs. Based on feedback from an ASCO needs assessment survey, ASCO’s Community Research Forum (CRF) sought to develop a tool to help community-based research sites exceed the minimum standards of conducting clinical research, and to identify important components for an internal quality assurance program. Methods: A tool was developed to incorporate elements of ASCO publications on minimal standards and exemplary attributes of research sites. The tool was designed to assist community-based research sites with the development and implementation of an internal quality assurance program. A checklist was also developed to help sites easily conduct an assessment of their program. Community-based researchers provided feedback on the tool’s content and utilization. Feedback was incorporated and the tool was released for widespread use in March 2014. Results: The tool was very well received by reviewers. All reviewers indicated that the level of detail of the tool was sufficient; 94% indicated that it presented realistic expectations, in terms of resources required to implement; and 81% indicated that it would be valuable for conducting a quality assessment of their research program. As of July 2014, the tool was downloaded by over 150 practices from 8 different countries and early feedback continued to be favorable, particularly from small and/or new research programs. Conclusions: Many community-based research programs do not have the resources to support an effective quality assurance program and rely heavily on external audits. The ASCO Research Program Quality Assessment Tool provides self-directed continual process improvement to help community-based research sites create an internal quality assurance program and exceed minimum standards of conducting clinical research. The CRF will learn more from users of the tool about the quality of research programs and processes, and key quality metrics. The tool is available for download at www.asco.org/communityresearchforum.

scholarly journals Challenges concerning test case specifications in automotive software testing: assessment of frequency and criticality

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Juhnke ◽  
Matthias Tichy ◽  
Frank Houdek
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Case Description ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Specific Test ◽  
Iso 26262 ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Descriptive Survey

AbstractAutomotive test case specifications document test cases to be performed for a specific test object at a defined test level. They are a fundamental part of a structured automotive testing process, as required by the ISO 26262. The aim of our research is to identify challenges from a practitioner’s point of view that lead to poor quality of test case specifications and thus negatively impact time, cost, and probability of defect detection. We designed an exploratory case study to systematically identify challenges focusing on (C) creation, (P) processing, and (Q) quality assurance related aspects of test case specifications. We conducted 17 semi-structured interviews covering a German OEM as well as three of its automotive suppliers and analyzed them qualitatively. We investigated causes and consequences arising from the challenges. Additionally, we conducted a descriptive survey to assess frequency and criticality. The identified challenges were summarized in a taxonomy consisting of nine main categories: (1) availability and (2) content-related problems with input artifacts, problems related to (3) a lack of knowledge, (4) the test case description, (5) the test case specification content, (6) processes, (7) communication, (8) quality assurance, and (9) tools. The challenges were assessed by 26 internal and 10 external employees. Hence, we identified differences between these groups in terms of access to documents, incomplete requirements, scope of model series, process, and tool-related aspects. Overall, the study results underline the necessity of quality assurance measures for test case specifications. Based on the assessments, our research indicates a broad range of test case description related challenges that are promising candidates for improving test case specification quality.

Sample Accountability Quality Assurance for the "Integrated Air Cancer Project" Research Program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

1987 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 1069-1072
Author(s):  
Randall R Watt ◽  
Larry T Cupitt
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
Identification System ◽  
Collection Site ◽  
Sample Tracking ◽  
Cancer Project ◽  
Sample Transfer

Abstract A sample accountability quality assurance (QA) program is described for a field and laboratory research effort which resulted in collection of approximately 2000 samples for analysis by several EPA and contractor laboratories. A QA program was specifically developed for this research program to include sample transfer from collection site to storage maintenance, record development, transfer to researchers, and sample tracking at all stages. A sample identification system and sample custody records are described for field and laboratory application. The functions of a sample coordinator are also described as relating to sample custody, coordination of sample analysis with researchers, and development of computer record files to facilitate research and sample tracking.

scholarly journals Quality Assurance Techniques in SRS Documents

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2S) ◽  
pp. 14-18
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Software Requirements ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Software Development Process ◽  
Language Analysis ◽  
Requirements Quality ◽  
Requirements Documents ◽  
Experimental Stage ◽  
Foundation Stone

For development of software, the most important aspects are the software requirements. They are the foundation stone for initiating any software development process. Software requirements documents contain the needs of the customers in natural language. By using various methods like reviews, inspections, walkthroughs, the content of the software requirement can be checked manually to reduce ambiguity. In recent years there is an attempt to automate these activities as a result of advancement in automation of natural language analysis. Automation of text mining techniques and text analysis is leading to feasibility of automation of requirements documents processing. The process can be completed in minutes now which were taking weeks earlier. Automation of analysis of text has triggered numerous possibilities for quality assurance of requirements. The possibilities of automation are model checking automation, automated rule checking, automated test case execution and measurement automation. In future more tools will enter the scene for automation of requirements quality assurance. At present most of them are in experimental stage. There is a definite need for more research in this field.

scholarly journals An Assessment of Time Involved in Pre-test Case Review and Counseling for a Whole Genome Sequencing Clinical Research Program

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 516-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet L. Williams ◽  
W. Andrew Faucett ◽  
Bethanny Smith-Packard ◽  
Monisa Wagner ◽  
Marc S. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Research ◽  
Whole Genome Sequencing ◽  
Genome Sequencing ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Whole Genome ◽  
Case Review

scholarly journals MoFQA: A TDD Process and Tool for Automatic Test Case Generation from MDD Models

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Riquelme ◽  
Magalí González ◽  
Nathalie Aquino ◽  
Luca Cernuzzi
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Process Development ◽  
Test Case Generation ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Automatic Test ◽  
Automatic Test Case Generation ◽  
Tool Set

Techniques for quality assurance have to deal with the complexity of software systems and the high probabilities of new errors appearing in any stage of the software life cycle. Software testing is a widely used approach but, due to the costs involved in this process, development teams often debate its applicability in their projects. In the endeavor to reduce the complexity of this process, this study presents an approach for software development based in Test-Driven Development (TDD) supported by Model-Based Testing (MBT) tools to allow automatic test-case generation. The approach, called MoFQA (Model-First Quality Assurance), consists of two main aspects: i) a method to drive software development based on testing techniques which defines steps and recom-mended practices; and, ii) a tool-set to allow clients and stakeholders to model system requirements, testers to create models that represent unit and abstract tests, and transformation tools used to generate executable tests. The tools that MoFQA provides are focusing on web applications. In order to validate the MoFQA tools, two validation experiences are presented.

scholarly journals Test Case of Quality Assurance in Pile Foundation

2001 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-35
Author(s):  
T. Hayashi ◽  
Y. Asai ◽  
H. Ono
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Pile Foundation ◽  
Test Case

scholarly journals MODEL-Based Performance Quality Assessment for IoT Applications

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Teeba Ismail Kh. ◽  
Ibrahim I. Hamarash
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Quality Model ◽  
Iot Applications ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Performance Quality ◽  
Model Based Testing

<p class="0abstractCxSpFirst">The number of applications incorporating Internet of Things (IoT) concepts increases extraordinarily. This increase cannot continue without high-quality assurance. There are some difficulties in testing IoT applications; the system heterogeneity, test cost and time are taken to test the system, and the precision percentage of test results.</p><p class="0abstractCxSpLast">A well-known and possibly the best solution to overcoming these difficulties is to model the system for evaluation purposes, known as model-based testing (MBT). This paper aims to design a model-based testing approach to assess IoT applications performance quality attributes. The ISO 25000 quality model is used as a standard for software quality assurance applications. IoTMaaS is used as a case study to implement the methodological approach. The possible test cases were generated using the ACTS combinatorial test generation tool. The performance metrics of each test case were monitored until the optimum test case was identified, with the shortest response time and the least amount of resources used. The proposed testing method appears to be successful, according to the results.</p>

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