ENSURING SOFTWARE QUALITY USING A VIRTUAL APPLIANCE

摘要

Various embodiments relate to apparatuses and methods of ensuring software quality using a virtual appliance. A software application is built into a virtual appliance and full compliance validation is done for the virtual appliance to ensure compliance to a standard such as a governmental regulation or industry standard. Instances of the virtual appliance are implemented for Sponsors following a process for implementing the virtual appliance. Rather than ensuring compliance to the standard by performing full compliance validation for the instance of the software to be used by the Sponsor, compliance to a standard is ensured by validating that the process for implementing the virtual appliance is executed correctly for each instance of the virtual appliance for each Sponsor.