Quality Assurance

The development of Amanzi is following a risk-based graded approach to meet its Quality Assurance requirements (NQA-1). This graded approach will use three phases of development in conjunction with an agile test-driven approach to maturing capabilities through a series of site-based demonstrations and automated hierarchical testing. Specifically, the Research and Development branch (R&D) corresponds to the NQA-1 “Basic Phase”, while the “Community Code” phase requires additional rigor in support of the NQA-1 “Applied Research” and broader use in the community. Finally, application of appropriate QA rigor will support the “Development Phase” and release of ASCEM as a tool for regulatory work, which is targeted for late 2015.

To ensure that new advances in algorithms, geoscience, computer, and computational science can advance quickly to future regulatory releases, all three phases of development will co-exist in the future. However, at this early stage only the R&D code branch (Basic Phase) exists. This release of Amanzi is from the R&D branch and is intended to open communication and build collaborations with potential users at DOE waste sites, universities and industry.