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A Quality Gate is a special milestone in a software project. Quality Gates are located before a phase that is strongly dependent on the outcome of a previous phase. They are especially useful between phases in which breaches in disciplines must be overcome. Such a breach typically occurs, for example, when embedded software must be transferred to a hardware chip. Quality Gates are more general than Milestones; Quality Gates can be used in larger set of more or less similar projects, whereas milestones must be defined for each project from scratch. Each Quality Gate includes a check of documents relevant to the previous phase. Unlike a software review, this check is only formal; no deep check on the contents of applicable documents is conducted in a Quality Gate. A Quality Gate demands a set of documents and includes special requirements on these documents, both of which are detailed in a checklist. The check itself is performed in a session with decision makers and domain experts. Depending on their decision, the project can be canceled, put on hold, or approved to proceeded normally. Unfortunately, the term Quality Gate is not used consistently.