| Zugriffsnummer | 17984 |
| Dokumenttyp | Zeitschriftenartikel |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Titel | An overview of guidance documents for software in metrological applications |
| Autor(in); Institution |
Tasic, Tanasko; Metrology Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, SLOVENIA
Grottker, Ulrich; 8.5, Metrologische Informationstechnik, PTB-Berlin
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| Quelle/Jahr | Computer standards and interfaces: 28 (2006), 3, 256 - 269 |
| ISSN | 0920-5489 |
| DOI | |
| Verlag | Amsterdam: Elsevier |
| Freie Schlagworte | metrological software ; legal metrology ; safety critical applications ; comparison of guidance documents |
| Zusammenfassung | Quality characteristics of metrological software are required by national or regional legislation as, e.g., in legal metrology or for safety critical applications, or by various standards like software product quality standards (i.e. ISO/IEC 9126) or laboratory competence standards (i.e. ISO/IEC 17025). Involved parties are interested to get clear guidance for software quality requirements and validation methods. Those parties are laboratory staff, metrology experts, accreditation bodies, manufacturers of measuring instruments and systems, IT specialists, legal metrology and other inspection bodies, and, of course, end users of metrological services. Several guidance documents have already been developed. In these documents different software quality issues are addressed to different extents. There are guides that include only requirements, other ones address validation as well. One group of guides addresses validation of software as a final product, another group gives additional software verification and development guidance. In some guides the strength of requirements and thoroughness of validation are derived from consequent risk assessments for software malfunction or fraud. This paper provides a comparison of approaches, aiming to support involved parties to understand common points and differences. |
