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 FCA may not be complete
until system integration.
The FCAs for all configuration items
should be complete prior to the design being released for
production.
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