Results of the IEEE survey of software engineering standards users

Abstract

This survey was initiated by the Software Engineering Standards Subcommittee (SESC) at a steering committee meeting held in conjunction with the Forum on Software Engineering Standards Issues. Individuals responsible for project process definition and documentation, for corporate process definition and documentation, and for compliance assessments bring different interpretations to the same software engineering standard. These users of software standards employ the standards in different ways. The Software Engineering Standards Users Survey is an attempt by SESC to take a market snapshot of software standards implementation and report the results to those responsible for IEEE standards creation and maintenance. This paper is a report of the survey results.