Web Application Development Quality Plan
This is a practical guide to building a quality plan for a web application development project — how quality will be planned, assured and controlled, adapted to the realities of building a custom web application.
What a Quality Plan is
A quality plan is how quality will be planned, assured and controlled. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Quality Management Plan. On a web application development project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for a Web Application Development project
Web Application Development projects live or die on building a custom web application. A well-built quality plan gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how web application development projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Quality standards
- Quality metrics
- QA activities
- QC / inspection approach
Web Application Development-specific considerations
Tailor the quality plan to the risks that most often derail web application development projects:
- Unclear or shifting requirements
- Technical debt
- Security and performance at scale
Example
On a real web application development project, the quality plan would be shaped by building a custom web application. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — unclear or shifting requirements, technical debt, security and performance at scale — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.