The two that
standout are both facets of harmonization, first of system and software
lifecycle processes and their supporting standards; second of national and
international standards. Through liaison with ISO/IET JTC1/SC7, people have
taken great strides toward making IEEE and SC7 standards consistent and
complementary, through both mutual adoptions and coordinated revisions. New
standards are proposed by the practitioner community and by study groups formed
within the Software and Systems Engineering Standards Committee. In both cases,
before work begins, the S2ESC completes and the IEEE New Standards Committee
then approves a Project Authorization Request that defines the standard's scope
and purpose. Two current areas of community interest are systems and software
assurance and agile development. A new study group is addressing the area of
high-integrity systems and will recommend standardization approaches to safety,
security, reliability, and dependability. Foremost is new IEEE Software Engineering Standards book series, in the early stages of publication.
It contains volumes on software engineering, software project management
planning, requirements, configuration management, quality assurance, reuse, and
testing, among others