A software quality perspective on the evolution of ISO 9001:1994 to ISO 9001:2000

Author

Walker, AJ

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

58

Lastpage

66

Abstract

The paper explores the implications of the ISO 9001:2000 Committee Draft in terms of its evolution from ISO 9001:1994. This review is undertaken using the business process model applied in ISO/IEC 12207 Software Lifecycle Processes. An analysis reveals there is only a moderate overlap between ISO 9001:1994 and the ISO/IEC 12207 process models. The gaps in the coverage are significant and account in part for the reluctance of the software development community to apply ISO 9001:1994. The emerging version of ISO 9001:2000 is examined in the light of ISO/IEC 12207. While the overlap between the process model of ISO/IEC 12207 and ISO 9001:2000 is improved (when compared to ISO 9001:1994), nevertheless there are inconsistencies needing to be addressed-the most noteworthy is the lack of commitment in ISO 9001:2000 to a true process orientation

Keywords

IEC standards; ISO standards; software quality; software standards; ISO 9001:1994; ISO 9001:2000; ISO IEC 12207; business process model; software development; software lifecycle process; software quality; software standards; Application software; Business; Companies; IEC standards; ISO standards; Laboratories; Measurement standards; Quality management; Software engineering; Software quality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering Standards, 1999. Proceedings. Fourth IEEE International Symposium and Forum on

Conference_Location

Curitiba

ISSN

1082-3670

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0068-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SESS.1999.766578

Filename

766578