FCA
Systems Engineering Glossary
Systems Engineering — Systems Engineering — Quality Assurance — FCA
Information on FCA
In systems engineering, a FCA is an
important part of quality assurance and is an important activity
within configuration management. A FCA ensures that
the functionality of a configuration item as demonstrated by the
test and evaluation effort is the same as that documented
in the Development Specification and the Product Specification for that
configuration item.
A FCA may be conducted as
a discreet, one-off task for each configuration item, or a
continuous audit may be conducted progressively over the development of
the configuration item. Where the functionality of a particular configuration
item may depend on other configuration items, the functional configuration
audit may not be complete until system integration.
The functional
configuration audits for all configuration items should be complete prior
to the design being released for production.
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