The ISO 9001 Standard

ISO 9001 is the quality assurance standard which is applies to software engineering. The standard contains twenty requirements which must be current for an effective quality assurance system because the ISO   9001 standard is applicable to all engineering disciplines a special group of ISO guidelines (ISO 9000-3) have been build to help interest the standard for use in the software process

This section written through Michael Stovsky has been adapted from Fundamentals ofIS0 9001 Standard and ISO 9000, workbooks established for Essential Software Engineering, a video curriculum established through R.S. Pressman & Associates, Inc Reprinted with permission.

The following 20 requirements delineated through ISO 9001 address which is given below:

1.     Management responsibility

2.      Quality system

3.     Contract review

4.     Design control

5.     Document and data control

6.     Purchasing

7.     Control of customer supplied product

8.     Product identification and tractability

9.     Process control

10.   Testing and Inspection

11.   Control of inspection, measuring, and test equipment

12.   Inspection and test status

13.   Control of nonconforming product

14.   Corrective and preventive action

15.   Preservation, Handling, packaging, storage,  and delivery

16.   Control of quality records

17.   Internal quality audits

18.   Training

19.   Servicing

20.   Statistical techniques

In order for a software company to become registered to ISO 9001 it must develop procedures and policies to address each of the needs noted above and then be able to demonstrate which these procedures and policies are being followed.