Investigation On The Application Of Software Project Quality Management In Insurance Industry

Insurance is a kind of business which managing risk. The capability of managing risk efficiently is the key leads to success. Commercial insurance companies depend on the background information systems. The production informatization in insurance companies has already entered a highly increasing period. And, the influence and use of informatization have been extended to different aspects in the business management.The quality issues in the software project management cause the problems such as increasing the running risk of systems, high cost of systems'maintenance etc. These problems not only bring the hidden trouble to the development of informatization, but also make the informatization could not support the process and revolution in the insurance businesses effectively. How to carry out software project scientifically, orderly, reasonably, and ensure the high-quality of the software, has becoming a popular subject.As a newly emerging industry and subject, Project Management can help organization to improve the ability of plan, implementation and control of various activities. Quality assurance is one of the major objects in project management. Due to the complexity of the software and hard measurement of quality, software project management is special to other project management. As a most popular standard in software industries, CMM is used to assess the ability of software contractor and to help organization to improve the quality of the software process.The quality of most internal software projects of domestic Insurance companies relys on the frequency of business requirement changes in most cases. To adapt to the change of the markets and keep the competitive power of the company, the rapid reaction of Insurance Companies depends on the information technology and the expansibility, predictability and maintainability of the information systems. The article will provide the solution of quality management of software projects which suitable to Insurance Companies. In order to improve the quality of software projects and to handle the constrains and conflicts of time, cost and quality, it's necessary to use quality management standards as a guideline, consider the specified cases in Insurance company, ensure the quality of project reasonable and integrate the matters from every aspects in project to achieve the quality objectives of the project within schedule and cost.This assignment would start from the theory of the software quality control. On the first part, it makes a description about the software quality, including the basic theories of the software quality and the frame of software quality control. In the coming part, regarding the characteristic of insurance business, this assignment analyses the process of software development and the present situation of the quality control in insurance companies. In the end, according to the situation and problems in insurance companies, this assignment suggests an optimization progress for the software quality system. Basic on the integral plan, the project should be setting the goal for the software quality management, optimizing the IT organizational structure, making the software testing team, making the procedure and specification for software quality control, and building the testing management platform and tools.