Standard
Quality Assurance and Testing Standard
This standard defines the Quality Assurance (QA) and testing framework for software, infrastructure, and system changes to ensure that consistent reliability, performance, and compliance are achieved across all organizational technology environments. It establishes testing lifecycle stages, quality gates, acceptance criteria, and validation requirements for projects and releases.
- Type
- Standard
- Version
- 1.0.7
- Date
- 2026-09-24
- Owner
- Chief Information Officer
- Approving authority
- Chief Information Officer
- Classification
- Public
- Confidentiality
- Public
- Category
- Developer Security
- Review frequency
- Annual and upon material framework or platform change
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
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Outline
- 1. Purpose
- 2. Scope
- 3. Governance and accountability
- 4. QA and testing lifecycle
- 5. Quality gates and release criteria
- 6. Testing types and requirements
- 7. Test environment requirements
- 8. Framework alignment
Frameworks it maps to
- ISO 9001:2015
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022
- COBIT 2019
- CSA CCM v4.1
- NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5
- OWASP WSTG v4.2 (Web Security Testing Guide)
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