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Can Agile and ISO 9001 interact well?

There are few academic papers addressing the relationship between lean software development and the practices covered by ISO 9001. Most articles says that the divergence between these approaches is big, but some also point that these concepts can be…
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Why would programmers ignore ISO standards?

One of the things I run into often is problems caused by programs which don't conform to ISO standardss. One example would be not using the ISO country tables but making up their own shorthands, which goes okay for the United States (US), or the…
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Pair Programming and ISO 27001

I’ve been working in an eXtreme programming team and doing pair programming for over 7 years in a windows environment. When we first started doing it someone would log in with their windows credentials and therefore all access to domain resources,…
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C++ : Lack of Standardization at the Binary Level

Why ISO/ANSI didn't standardize C++ at the binary level? There are many portability issues with C++, which is only because of lack of it's standardization at the binary level. Don Box writes, (quoting from his book Essential COM, chapter COM As A…
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Can creating a Software Design Document after development be justified?

I'm currently working on my graduation for my "Software Development" studies, in which I have to develop complex software individually in an external company. This all needs to be done in a structured manner, creating all corresponding…
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Is the addition of a duration to a date-time defined in ISO 8601?

I've writing a date-time library, and need to implement the addition of a duration to a date-time. If I add a 1 month duration: P1M to the 31st March 2012: 2012-03-31, does the standard define what the result is? Because the resulting date (31st…
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When passing dates/datetimes as url parameters in an API, which format is better - unix timestamp or date string (ISO 8601)

Interesting question came up at work in regards to the better format of passing a date/datetime as a url parameter in an API: Is it better to pass as a unix timestamp, or as a plaintext date string (01/30/2015 04:17:57pm, 2015-01-27T16:17:57+00:00)?
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Best representation for relative dates & durations

I use ISO 8601 to represent dates & durations and all is OK. But now I need to represent relative dates and durations like: The date for first day, at midnight, of the next week All the last month period. In fact I need to have a syntax for it,…
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C/C++: Who uses the logical operator macros from iso646.h and why?

There has been some debate at work about using the merits of using the alternative spellings for C/C++ logical operators in iso646.h: and && and_eq &= bitand & bitor | compl ~ not ! not_eq != or || or_eq …
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How would I make a suggestion for a change to the SQL standard

If I wanted to make a suggestion to a change to how the UPDATE statement works in SQL, how would I go about it? Is there a website for the next standard? I googled, but just kept getting the Wikipedia page.
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How to structure SW documentation with SOUP components

I need to produce some documentation to be compliant with IEC 62304 and, while reading all of the processes needed to be documented, I'm having a couple doubts about how to structure the whole lot of documentation. My concern is about how to divide…
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Why does ISO 8859-1 contain letter-free diacritics?

ISO 8859-1 contains a few letter-free diacritics: The diaeresis (¨), the acute accent (´), the cedilla (¸) and the macron (¯).¹ Why were they included? As far as I know (please correct me if I am wrong), the ISO 8859 encodings do not support…
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Are there any widely accepted sets of standards/practices for secure coding?

The title should be fairly self-explanatory. We need to update our coding standards, and as part of this process we've been asked to try and follow an industry standard from a recognised/knowledgeable body rather than just rolling our own. It allows…
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In terms of Software, what constitutes a quality control plan for ISO 9001 compliance?

I am bidding on a government contract (my first) and there is a section requesting that I provide a high-level outline of a quality control plan that would ensure that the end product is ISO-9001 compliant. I don't know much about ISO 9001 so I am…
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Why are cost and compliance not a software quality characteristic?

According to the standard ISO/IEC 25010:2011, the "quality of a system is the degree to which the system satisfies the stated and implied needs of its various stakeholders". The standard defines 8 categories of quality characteristics: Functional…
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