"Quality Assurance"

[JohnWK]

I am attempting to build an application (for sale) and my customer needs to be assured of a QA level for the software I am providing. Is there an industry standard that LabVIEW is in compliance with? How can I best maintain the intrinsic quality level when I include my application files.

[Dennis_Knutson]

The quality level is more a matter of your application than of the language you use to create it with. There are numerous quality standards. The ISO 900x flavors is one of the most common. For a quick introduction to some of the issues, read chapter 2 of the LabVIEW Development Guidelines. This pdf file is part of the LabVIEW Bookshelf that ships with LabVIEW. There used to be a unit testing toolkit available from NI but I haven't seen it in a while. I do remember a company offering some sort package to aid in the validation process but I can't find the link or old email. It was probably doen by an NI Alliance member so you could try searching there or doing a google search.

[waldemar.hersacher]

Hi John,

Here is some discussion about certifying LabVIEW applications.

I don't know if you have seen it.
Waldemar

[wiebe@CARYA]

Hi,

If you want an even higher abstraction about software quality, take a look
at CMM (CMMi for IT projects).

GMP is based on ISO 900x, but specialized on manufacturing (ISO 900x is for
company householding). GAMP is specialized for automation manufacturing.

GAMP is recognized by the FDA.

The main focus of ensuring a high quality level will be on the development
process. No standard I know off focusses on one specified programming
language.

Regards,

Wiebe.


"Dennis Knutson" wrote in message
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> The quality level is more a matter of your application than of the
> language you use to create it with. There are numerous quality
> standards. The ISO 900x flavors is one of the m
ost common. For a quick
> introduction to some of the issues, read chapter 2 of the LabVIEW
> Development Guidelines. This pdf file is part of the LabVIEW Bookshelf
> that ships with LabVIEW. There used to be a unit testing toolkit
> available from NI but I haven't seen it in a while. I do remember a
> company offering some sort package to aid in the validation process
> but I can't find the link or old email. It was probably doen by an NI
> Alliance member so you could try searching there or doing a google
> search.