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BS 7165:1991

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Recommendations for achievement of quality in software
Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Superseded date

02-15-1998

Language(s)

English

Published date

02-28-1991

Committees responsible
Foreword
Recommendations
1. Scope
2. Definitions
3. Pre-development activities
3.1 The customer's specification of requirements
3.2 The supplier's response
3.3 The procurement specification
3.4 Software life cycle management planning
3.5 Planning for software quality
4. Suppliers' codes of practice
4.1 General
4.2 Project management
4.3 Design techniques and methods
4.4 Programming techniques and methods
4.5 Software development facilities
4.6 Documentation
4.7 Configuration management
4.8 Design review
4.9 Tests and trials
4.10 Transfer to customer
4.11 Post-design services/maintenance
4.12 Sub-contracting of software
5. Software quality procedures
5.1 General
5.2 Project management
5.3 Design techniques and methods
5.4 Programming techniques and methods
5.5 Software development facilities
5.6 Documentation
5.7 Configuration management
5.8 Design review
5.9 Tests and trials
5.10 Transfer to customer
5.11 Post-design services/maintenance
5.12 Sub-contracting of software
Appendices
A. Pre-contractual activities
B. Planning for software quality
C. Design and programming techniques and methods
D. Documentation
E. Configuration management
F. Design reviews
G. Tests
H. Trials procedure
J. Transfer to customer
K. Sub-contracting of software
Figures
1. Typical fault reporting procedure
2. Typical software modification procedure
3. Typical document modification procedure

Describes the features of a quality control system intended to meet the requirements of BS 5750 \'Quality systems\' and gives some recommendations on the practical realization of these requirements to ensure that software is of the required quality.

Committee
IST/15
DevelopmentNote
Supersedes DEFSTAN 00-16/1(1984) (06/2003)
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
32
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Superseded
SupersededBy

BS 7649:1993 Guide to the design and preparation of documentation for users of application software

BS 4778-1:1987 Quality vocabulary International terms
DEFSTAN 00-16/1(1984) : 1984 GUIDE TO THE ACHIEVEMENT OF QUALITY IN SOFTWARE
IEEE 729-1983 IEEE Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology
BS 5750-1:1987 Quality systems Specification for design/development, production, installation and servicing
BS 5760-1:1985 Reliability of systems, equipment and components Guide to reliability and maintainability programme management

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