Table Of ContentImplementing
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Implementing
the IEEE
Software
Engineering
Standards
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Michael Schmidt
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Dedication
To my family:
My parents,Jürgen and Hanna
My wife,Elizabeth
My children,Emily,Evan,and Erica
Acknowledgments
I would like to thank the countless IEEE members who contributed to and
reviewed the standards collection over the years.Without their efforts we would
have no standards.
I would also like to thank my editors,Laura Williams,for encouraging me,and
putting up with me,and Heather Goodell,for her help in completing the project.
Special thanks to Jim Moore,who provided invaluable feedback on the contents of
the book.I take credit for any remaining rough spots.
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About the Author
Michael Schmidt was born in Cologne,Germany in 1959.His father,Jürgen
Schmidt,a well-known mathematician,moved the family to the United States in
1967 on a Fulbright-Hays teaching fellowship.Mike graduated from the Kinkaid
School in Houston,Texas,in 1977;received a B.A.in Mathematics from the
University of California at Berkeley in 1980;and a M.A.in Mathematics from the
University of Washington at Seattle in 1981.In 1980,as a student intern,Mike
worked as a programmer on the cyclotron control system at Lawrence Berkeley
Laboratories.After receiving his degree at UW,Mike took a position as a software
engineer at Bi-M Instruments,a start-up company in Houston developing ballast
control systems for offshore oil rigs.In 1981,Mike was recruited by Varian
Associates in Palo Alto to work on the software for a next-generation linear accel-
erator for oncology care.At Varian,Mike was promoted to project engineer,lead-
ing the team for the control system software.In 1986,Mike was recruited to
another start-up company,TransImage Corporation in Menlo Park,as a staff soft-
ware engineer to develop a sophisticated optical-character-recognition system.In
1987,Mike joined Siemens Medical Systems,again as a project engineer to head
the software team developing a next-generation control system for a linear accel-
erator for oncology care.Mike was promoted to manager of the software engi-
neering department at Siemens Medical Systems,Oncology Care Systems,with
responsibility for all software development in five major product areas.In 1994,
Mike started Software Engineering Services,Inc.,a software consulting business
specializing in fixed-price projects for software in the medical device,pharmaceu-
tical,and biotechnology industries,and other industries for which software plays a
safety-critical role.SES has a long list of well-known clients in these industries,
and has developed and validated software for numerous sophisticated applications.
Mike also has been teaching computer science classes at University of California
Berkeley Extension,and Diablo Valley College,including C++ programming,and
classes on the IEEE Software Engineering Standards.In 2000,Mike joined Zeiss
Humphrey Systems,a leading manufacturer of ophthalmic instruments,as the soft-
ware engineering manager.Mike is an IEEE member.
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About the Technical Reviewers
Charles Ashbacher has been programming for nearly 20 years,which makes him
experienced and well-rounded rather than old and cynical.He is co-editor of
Journal of Recreational Mathematics and a regular contributor to Journal of Object-
Oriented Programming.Charles teaches computing at all levels:corporate training,
college,and community education and is president and CEO of Charles Ashbacher
Technologies (http://www.ashbacher.com).His background also includes stints
writing commercial code and software to conduct scientific research.
Tathagat Varma received an M.Sc.Computer Science (Software) degree from J.K
Institute of Applied Physics and Technology,University of Allahabad,India in 1990.
He then worked with the Defence Research and Development Organization,
Government of India,as a computer scientist until 1995.During this tenure,he
also participated in the XIII Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica,where he
stayed for 16 months! In August 1995,he joined Siemens Communication
Software,Bangalore,where he worked in telecommunication software develop-
ment for over a year.Since December 1996,he has worked with Philips Software
Centre,Bangalore.Philips Software Centre is the software arm of the Royal Philips
Electronics,The Netherlands.In the last three years with Philips,he has worked
with Medical Systems and as SPI and QA Manager.Currently,he is managing a
project that involves development of embedded software for digital set-top boxes.
He is formally trained in CMM,ISO Tick-IT,and Philips Assessment Method.He
is also an active reviewer for the IEEE Software magazine.
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