Quality Assurance for Software Development Applied to Electronic Instruments

Actually most of electronic instruments include an important part of software. The software developed by engineers and scientists for electronic instruments to be applied in critical applications requires to follow a systematic programming process, that ensures the quality of the developed software. As examples of software for instruments in critical applications where a programming process is required, we can mention those applied in nuclear sciences, medicine, industry and also in institutions that require qualified software to fulfill special requirements. In this work a framework with a sequence of steps of quality assurance for software applications in electronic instruments, and useful references that help to increment the knowledge in this area are given. The use of this framework in the development of software for electronic instruments helps to obtain high quality software that fulfills the requirements established by the user. An important contribution in this work is the distribution of responsibilities that allows an appropriate and controlled system development.