Quality Management and Quality Assurance Standards - Part 3: Guidelines for the Application of ISO 9001 to the DeveClopment, Supply and Maintenance of Software
This National Standard of Canada is equivalent to International Standard ISo
9000-3:1991. This part of ISO 9000 sets out guidelines to facilitate the application of ISo
9001 to organizations developing, supplying and maintaining software. It is intended to provide guidance where a contract between two parties
requires the demonstration of a supplier's capability to develop, supply and
maintain software products. The guidelines in this part of ISO 9000 are intended to describe the suggested
controls and methods for producing software which meet a purchaser's
requirements. This is done primarily by preventing nonconformity at all stages
from development through to maintenance. The guidelines in this part of ISO 9000 are applicable in contractual
situations for software products when a) the contract specifically requires design effort and the product
requirements are stated principally in performance terms, or they need to
be established; b) confidence in the product can be attained by the adequate demonstration of
a certain supplier's capabilities in development, supply and maintenance.