Re: Documentation Standards

["Marc A. Criley" <mcqada@earthlink.net>]

"John R. Strohm" wrote:
> 
> Back in the Middle Ages of military software development, we had
> DOD-STD-2167A and all the related Data Item Descriptions.  It used to be
> possible to go out on the Web and download a full set of same, or you could
> get it from your friendly neighborhood company specifications and standards
> library.  (I went through that exercise, a few times, with MIL-STD-1679,
> DOD-STD-2167, and DOD-STD-2167A.)
> 
> Last I heard, DOD-STD-2167A had been dropped, and the successor project,
> DOD-STD-SDS, was terminated, with the idea being instead to use equivalent
> commercial specification standards.
> 
> Does anyone know what the "equivalent" standards are, and where I can scrape
> up a set, and how much it will cost me?  ("Free" is a very good answer: this
> is something I'm doing on my own, rather than something my employer wants me
> to spend time and money doing.)

(An earlier response I posted to this appears to have gotten lost,
trying again...)

What appears to me be the next generation of the 2167A/498 evolution is
J-STD-016.  If you're familiar with 2167, you'll get a warm fuzzy
looking through this.  J-STD-016 is titled something like "Software Life
Cycle Processes", and is a joint IEEE/EIA standard.  I got my copy via
my employer, which cost them somewhere in the vicinity of $200--I think,
for sure at least $100.

Marc A. Criley
Senior Staff Engineer
Quadrus Corporation
www.quadruscorp.com