I think this along with some of the other info people have provided on testing is exactly what I need.
Thanks for your help everyone! Tracy Radel Nuclear Engineer SHINE Medical Technologies tracy.ra...@shinemed.com -----Original Message----- From: David Cantrell [mailto:da...@cantrell.org.uk] Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 4:38 PM To: perl-qa@perl.org Subject: Re: QA for Perl On 31/07/2013 21:46, Tracy Radel wrote: > It is more an issue of documentation of how quality assurance is done > for Perl. Our procedures for QA require that when doing QA on a model > or program we have created (my ultimate goal), any software used by > that program must also have gone through a sufficiently rigorous QA process. > For other programs I have been able to find documentation on their QA > program that includes standard practices, problem reporting, code > control, records management, etc. They also have documentation > describing the V&V tests performed with tolerances and results outlined. This is probably a good place to start: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpolicy.html followed by: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlhack.html I wish you the very best of luck, especially with successfully communicating what it is that you mean by QA to open source people who, mostly, have never worked on safety-critical systems! -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla.
