FUNCTIONAL CONFIGURATION AUDIT

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In systems engineering, a functional configuration audit is an important part of quality assurance and is an important activity within configuration management. A functional configuration audit 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 functional configuration audit 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.


Other topics in our resources on Systems Engineering related to Functional Configuration Audit include: 
 
  • Physical Configuration Audit
  • ISO 9000
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