• It is a type of non-functional software testing.
• It is related with the IT standards followed by the company and it is the testing done to find the deviations from the company prescribed standards.
  
• It determines,whether we are implementing and meeting the defined standards.
• We should take care while doing this testing,Is there any drawbacks in standards implementation in our project and need to do analysis to improve the standards.
• Its basically an audit of a system carried out against a known criterion.

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