PISCATAWAY, N.J., USA, 25 January 2007 The IEEE has begun work on the first
standard for the verification, validation and accreditation (VV&A) of high
level architecture federations. It also has approved the revision of an existing
system and software risk management standard and begun to revise a standard on
quality requirements for software products.
The VV&A standard, IEEE
P1516.4(TM), “Verification, Validation, and Accreditation of a Federation,
an Overlay to the High Level Architecture Federation Development and Execution
Process”, will provide a higher-level framework into which VV&A practices
can be integrated and tailored for specific applications. The VV&A overlay
will offer implementation guidance to VV&A practitioners for many end uses
by focusing on VV&A processes that apply to federations.
This overlay
will recommend VV&A processes to assure the acceptability and utility of federations
for particular uses. It also will describe the information to be fed to and resulting
from those processes, as well as the relationships between federation development
and execution process and VV&A processes and their information products. IEEE
P1516.4 supports consistent planning, implementation and documentation of VV&A
activities, which generally involve participants from multiple organizations or
countries.
The IEEE has also approved the revision of IEEE 16085(TM), “Systems
and Software Engineering - Life Cycle Processes - Risk Management”, which
describes a process for managing risk during the development, operation and maintenance
of systems and software. It addresses risk management from the enterprise management
viewpoint, rather than from that of a particular project. IEEE 16085 provides
a unifying risk management process for use with IEEE/EIA 12207 and IEEE 15288.
It was revised so it could be jointly adopted by IEEE and ISO/IEC JTC1/ SC7.
The
IEEE also began to revise IEEE P25051(TM), “Software Engineering - Software
Product Quality Requirements and Evaluation (SQuaRE) - Requirements for Quality
of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Software Product and Instructions for Testing”.
This international software standard sets quality requirements, requirements for
documenting testing, and instructions for conformity evaluation. IEEE P25051 will
replace IEEE 1465(TM), which was an adoption the ISO/IEC 12119 standard that has
since been revised and renumbered as ISO/IEC 25051.
About the IEEE
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and control technology fields. This nonprofit organization also sponsors or cosponsors
more than 300 technical conferences each year. Additional information about the
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