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Quality assessment is the process of evaluation of the software products quality, measuring of system defectiveness (not preventing defects). Note: if you mean providing confidence that quality requirements will be fulfilled, way of preventing defects, use "quality-assurance" tag

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What is a reasonable expectation for bugs upon release?

Role of QA is not to find all the bugs. QA is there to establish a process of finding bugs, collecting and prioritizing them, to be fixed fixed by developers in order of business priorities. And provi …
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How testing and inspections can fulfill quality requirements?

How you know that design and development was proper? You inspect the development process, review the code, and run test. :-)
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How can developers be assured that their software is fault free?

Everybody keeps repeating that all non-trivial programs have bugs. That just shows how far from mature is software engineering as a field of study, and how big gap there is between computer science (s …
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Determine most depended-on code

Why do you think that goal of coverage is 100%? Due to law of Diminishing returns, increasing coverage in other modules is more beneficial that 100% coverage in few. Also, cyclomatic complexity canno …
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Detecting tests that will never fail

I read somewhere a suggestion that any test which did not failed for a year should be a candidate for elimination. Not automatically eliminated - maybe for some critical functionality you want multip …
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How to deal with flaky tests that have intermittent failures?

Against flaky test the Googlers themselves contend in vain. (And yes, last link is a reference to a famous sci-fi novel).
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