This paper presents an overview of a pilot implementation of the ISO/IEC 29110 standard, with a group of very small software development companies based in Ireland. This paper may serve as guidance for both researchers and practitioners wishing to understand the issues of process standards adoption by very small companies and ISO/IEC 29110 in particular.

The e-Learning systems are one of the areas that have proven their own importance in promoting the use of IT technologies in academia environment. However, the growing need for such systems requires the adoption of a quality design approach based on a recognized quality frameworks and standards comprising sets of well defined criteria. This paper investigates the existing quality frameworks (SC...

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Accreditation to ISO/IEC 17025 is required for EC official food control and veterinary laboratories by Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004. Measurements in hospital laboratories and clinics are increasingly accredited to ISO/IEC 15189. Both of these management standards arose from command and control military standards for factory inspection during World War II. They rely on auditing of compliance and...

Web Services (WS) are an alternative to the lack of interoperability of applications, to facilitate integration via Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The main goal of this paper is to establish a correspondence between three WS-related standards, WSA (Web Services Architecture) representing industrial and marketing requirements, ISO/IEC 9126-1 quality model to specify standard quality requir...

Recently, two ISO electronic imaging standards aimed at digital capture device dynamic range metrology have been issued. Both ISO 15739 (digital still camera noise) and ISO 21550 (film scanner dynamic range) adopt a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) criterion for specifying dynamic range. To resiliently compare systems with differing mean-signal transfer, or Electro-Optical Conversion Functions (OECF...

Companies that are according to ISO 9000 standards have to maintain a set of documents describing the quality system that include policies, procedures and instructions to assure the final product’s conformance with ISO 9000 requirements. Each change to be introduced in the certified process has to be first written down in the respective documents that are affected by this changes and employees ...

A firewall is a well established security measure for connecting to the Internet (TCP/IP protocol suite). Government procurement profiles for data communication products (GOSIPs Government OSI Profile) usually demand use of official international standards, as defined by the International Standards Organization (ISO). ISO has defined a framework for Open Systems Interconnection (OSI), and devel...

The present article summarizes the authors' experience with the implementation of a quality management system based on ISO 17025 and ISO 15189 standards at university laboratories. The accreditation of the analytical procedures at the Universidad Mariano Gálvez represented a challenge due to the unique nature of an educational institution and the difference in nature to the standards implemente...