Introducing ECSS Software-Engineering Standards within ESA – Practical approaches for space- and ground-segment software
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Why a new software-engineering standard? ESA has had a highly successful softwareengineering standard, ESA PSS-05, since 1984. PSS-05 was prepared by ESA’s Board for Software Standardisation and Control (BSSC), which was established in 1977, when the importance of software standards for the proper conduct of complex or critical spacesoftware projects was realised. PSS-05 engineering standard would become the one to be used in ESA software projects. Shortly after this decision, ISO published a new international software-engineering standard, ISO/IEC 12207 (Information Technology, Software Lifecycle Processes, 1995), which is now the leading standard in this field. The ECSS softwareengineering standard ECSS-E-40, which first appeared in 1999, is based on ISO 12207. In fact, ECSS-E-40 tailors ISO12207 specifically for space projects.
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