The Software Commandments

Came across this website that has some very detailed “commandments” for software development at their company.  A surprisingly lengthy list of dos and don’ts related to coding, testing, designing, estimating, and managing the software lifecycle.  Does your company have anything written?  I often find that each company has some “lore” – some practices that characterize their approach creating high quality software.  You can view this list at https://www.codethink.co.uk/commandments.html

Back in 2006, the IEEE Computer Journal published an article titled: “The Power of 10: Rules for Developing Safety- Critical Code” by Gerard J. Holzmann of the NASA/JPL Laboratory for Reliable Software.  You can view our post on that article here.

Do you have practices that you believe every medical device software team should be using?  Leave us a message and let us know if we can reference your practice or method and use your name in a future article we are planning on “robust software practices.”

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Brian is a biomedical software engineer - whatever that is! Started writing machine code for the Intel 8080 in 1983. Still enjoys designing and developing code. But probably enjoys his garden more now and watching plants grow ... and grandkids grow!

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