BS 7165:1991

Committees responsible
Foreword
Recommendations
1. Scope
2. Definitions
3. Pre-development activities
3.1 The customer's specification of requirements
3.2 The supplier's response
3.3 The procurement specification
3.4 Software life cycle management planning
3.5 Planning for software quality
4. Suppliers' codes of practice
4.1 General
4.2 Project management
4.3 Design techniques and methods
4.4 Programming techniques and methods
4.5 Software development facilities
4.6 Documentation
4.7 Configuration management
4.8 Design review
4.9 Tests and trials
4.10 Transfer to customer
4.11 Post-design services/maintenance
4.12 Sub-contracting of software
5. Software quality procedures
5.1 General
5.2 Project management
5.3 Design techniques and methods
5.4 Programming techniques and methods
5.5 Software development facilities
5.6 Documentation
5.7 Configuration management
5.8 Design review
5.9 Tests and trials
5.10 Transfer to customer
5.11 Post-design services/maintenance
5.12 Sub-contracting of software
Appendices
A. Pre-contractual activities
B. Planning for software quality
C. Design and programming techniques and methods
D. Documentation
E. Configuration management
F. Design reviews
G. Tests
H. Trials procedure
J. Transfer to customer
K. Sub-contracting of software
Figures
1. Typical fault reporting procedure
2. Typical software modification procedure
3. Typical document modification procedure

Describes the features of a quality control system intended to meet the requirements of BS 5750 \'Quality systems\' and gives some recommendations on the practical realization of these requirements to ensure that software is of the required quality.