Ontario Hydro/AECL standards for software engineering deficiencies in existing standards that created their need

There currently exists a plethora of standards for software engineering, with IEEE having the most comprehensive set. Despite the abundance of standards, Ontario Hydro and Atomic Energy Canada Ltd (AECL) found that the existing standards did not meet our needs and hence undertook to write our own standards for software engineering. This paper outlines our requirements for standards for software engineering, assesses existing standards against them and describes the framework of standards that was developed by Ontario Hydro and AECL to meet our requirements.