Software Quality Assurance Fact Sheet

The Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Software Quality Assurance project (SwQA) is developing innovative approaches to re-duce the risk and cost of software failures. SwQA aims to make improvements in the following ways:

• Advancing research and development in new tools and techniques to improve software developers’ capabilities to analyze software for potential vulnerabilities.
• Applying new and improved capabilities in testing and evaluation activities to correct vulnerabilities and re-duce the probability and frequency of exploitation by prospective adversaries.