Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: c90016c6-e03f-4224-8ff3-87a6f7d3ca42
Document Type: srp
Title: Appendix 7-A
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0525/ML052500547.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 7
Section ID: 7
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tion addresses acceptance criteria for planning activities. The acceptance criteria address specific software development planning activities and products. These products, when found to be acceptable, provide the reviewer with additional criteria for reviewing the processes and products of subsequent life cycle activities, as discussed in Sections 3.2 and 3.3 below. Acceptance criteria are divided into three sets: management characteristics, implementation characteristics, and resource characteristics. Each of these is further divided into specific characteristics, as shown in the following table. Not all specific characteristics occur for every plan. Management Implementation Resource Characteristics Characteristics Characteristics Purpose Measurement Budget Organization Procedures Methods/tools Oversight Record keeping Personnel Responsibilities Schedule Standards Risks Security Software development process characteristics are defined in Section A.3 above. All planning documents should be evaluated for the following process characteristics: consistency, style, traceability, unambiguity and verifiability. Each plan should be internally consistent, and the complete set of plans should be mutually consistent. Plans should be documented so that they can be understood both by the users of the plan and by the reviewers. The software management plan should be traceable back to system management planning; the remaining software plans should be traceable back to the software management plan; and the various process implementation documents and the design outputs should be traceable back to the relevant plans. The set of plans should not be ambiguous. It should be possible to verify that the plans have been followed during the software project. The review and assessment of the quality of the plans provide a means of judging the competency of the development organization and management. It may be the case, particularly when the applicant/licensee is planning for future