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Software engineering and software process improvement standards are gaining more and more attention. Why is this? First, standards are recognised by the software industry as a way for transferring good practice into industrial use. Agencies procuring software are focusing on standards as they want to ensure that a target level of quality (associated with the standard) has been followed during the development of the software and is hence reflected in the quality of the software itself. Moreover, standards are used as the basis against which organisations and/or software products are certified. Finally, if two organisations collaborating in the development of a software product follow the same standards, then cooperation will be considerably simplified.
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Emmerich, W. (1999). Software Process — Standards, Assessments and Improvement. In: Derniame, JC., Kaba, B.A., Wastell, D. (eds) Software Process: Principles, Methodology, and Technology. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1500. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49205-4_2
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