Abstract: This study presents an overview of one of the software engineering topics in general and one of the software quality topics in specific which is Software Quality Assurance (SQA). This survey provides an extensive review to a number of studies and approaches done in software quality assurance also it includes a classification of these studies according to, its targeted proposed work. There are many studies done on software quality in different fields such as: education, economics, healthcare and software products. This survey focuses on the models of software quality and frameworks for measuring quality using metrics. Also, a number of previously done surveys and literature reviews on software quality assurance were included in this survey in order to provide a complete picture on this topic.