Patent ID: 8078924

Claim:
A method for ensuring desired quality of a product having new features, comprising: receiving customer-desired features for the product via a user interface of a Quality Assurance system, the Quality Assurance system being a computer system; translating the customer-desired features into product design requirements via a translating means of said Quality Assurance computer system, said product design requirements being suitable for use in the Quality Assurance system; identifying product design requirements for said new features of said product; automatically generating a first test plan for said product by querying a database based on said product design requirements, said database storing a plurality of test plans, a plurality of test configurations, and a plurality of test scopes for previously tested versions of said product; determining whether the first test plan includes new tests for verifying said each new feature; receiving said new tests from a tester; upon reception of said new tests, updating said database by adding said new tests; and generating a test plan document for said product based on said updated database.