RFG believes using outsourced application development services can expose enterprises to undesirable risks, including backdoors, data corruption and privacy, poor code quality, and viruses. IT executives must address concerns related to application development methods, how access to existing applications and data is extended, versioning control, and quality assurance. IT executives will need to maintain internal control over acceptance, compliance, system, and volume testing. All these tests, and the associated test environments, should be under quality assurance (QA) supervision to ensure the sanctity and privacy of live data.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2118215/mitigating-risk-through-quality-assurance.html