Re: QA for Perl

[email protected] (David Cantrell) Wed, 31 Jul 2013 22:38:15 +0100
Newsgroups perl.qa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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!

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