The continual process of making sure the software product complies with the organization’s set and standardized quality criteria is known as software quality assurance, or SQA for short. SQA is a collection of procedures that ensures everyone working on the project has accurately followed all instructions and followed all processes.

SQA is a continuous process used across the whole software development life cycle that runs parallel to software development. Software quality assurance inspects for flaws with quality during each stage of development rather than after completion.