Doubt and Software Standards

Faith, Hope and Doubt

Standards and Agile Software Development

This paper investigates the adaptability of agile methodologies to software development standards laid down by ISO. On the basis of this analysis, guidelines are proposed for developing software in such a way that the development process conforms to the standards required by the software acquirer, while still retaining its agile characteristics. Extreme Programming (XP) is used as the primary r...

Standards Compliant Software Development

Software engineering standards determine practices that `compliant' software processes shall follow. Standards generally de ne practices in terms of constraints that must hold for documents or the information in these documents. The document types identi ed by standards include not only typical development products, such as user requirements, but also process-oriented documents, such as progres...

Microchimerism and Renal Transplantation: Doubt Still Persists

Background: The Presence of donor leukocytes in recipients of organ allograft has been shown even several years after transplantation. However, it remains unclear whether this donor cell microchimerism plays an effective role in allograft acceptance or is simply a consequence of immunosuppressive conditions in recipients. Objective: To study microchimerism in a group of kidney transplant recipi...

Design of (Robotics) Software Standards

This paper presents a strategy to design standards for software libraries in robotic systems (or rather, in large-scale engineering systems in general). The strategy involves the separation between objects (algorithmic functionality and single-activity behaviour) and components (multi-activity interaction architecture and behaviour), and the introduction of four complementary levels in software...