Abstract :
One of the greatest fears of emerging professional disciplines is that governmental actions-court decisions and third-party standards-will preempt the profession´s active participation in legislative and regulatory processes. Indeed, software engineering standards, such as the Underwriters Laboratories´ Standard for Safety-Related Software (UL 1998, first and second editions), have preceded the development of practices, legislation, and regulation
Keywords :
government policies; legislation; program testing; software quality; software reusability; software standards; Underwriters Laboratories Standard for Safety-Related Software; court decisions; governmental actions; legislative processes; professional disciplines; regulatory processes; software component quality; software engineering standards; third-party standards; third-party testing; Business; Capability maturity model; Coordinate measuring machines; Laboratories; Software engineering; Software quality; Software safety; Software standards; Software testing; Standards development;
