Abstract
Students and indeed many practicin!{ software professionals are often skeprical of the benefirs of software qualiry assurance. Organizations which have experienced the benefits for themselves are in no doubt. In the Software Engineennf{ maJor ill the Queensland Universirv of Technology. a Software Quality Assurance unit has been imroduced. We have auempted to Rive students some praoical experience by combimnf? the practical work for this unit with project work from other units in the major. The quality assurance students imeract with project srudents in reviews and walk throughs of baseline documems. Our experience with this experiment is described. and we draw some tentative conclusions.