Scope
This Standard defines a set of software product assurance requirements to be used for the development and maintenance of software for space systems. Space systems include manned and unmanned spacecraft, launchers, payloads, experiments and their associated ground equipment and facilities.
This Standard also applies to the development or reuse of nondeliverable software which affects the quality of the deliverable product or service provided by a space system, if the service is implemented by software.
ECSS-Q-ST-80 interfaces with space engineering and management, which are addressed in the Engineering (-E) and Management (-M) branches of the ECSS System, and explains how they relate to the software product assurance processes.
This standard may be tailored for the specific characteristic and constraints of a space project in conformance with ECSS-S-ST-00.
Tailoring of this Standard to a specific business agreement or project, when software product assurance requirements are prepared, is also addressed in clause 4.3.
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The standard is supported by the following ECSS Handbooks
- ECSS-Q-HB-80-01A – Reuse of existing software (5 December 2011)
- ECSS-Q-HB-80-02 Part 1A – Software process assessment and improvement – Part 1: Framework (8 October 2010)
- ECSS-Q-HB-80-02 Part 2A – Software process assessment and improvement – Part 2: Assessor instrument (8 October 2010)
- ECSS-Q-HB-80-03A Rev.1 – Software dependability and safety (20 November 2017)
- ECSS-Q-HB-80-04A – Software metrication programme definition and implementation (30 March 2011)
This standard cancels and replaces ECSS-Q-ST-80C Rev.1 (15 February 2017)