Software quality assurance standards-a comparison and an integration

Many software quality assurance (SQA) standards have been written for both commercial and defense applications. An organization developing software for different application areas and for different customers will be faced with the need to conform to different SQA standards. This paper discusses past and current SQA standards with special emphasis on their similarities and differences. The authors present a generic SQA standard which integrates the existing standards into a comprehensive and consistent framework. A matrix is provided showing the sources for each quality assurance requirement in this generic standard. This generic standard would enable an organization or company to be substantively compliant with the standards used throughout the world