Document: NUREG-0800
Document ID: fea61ff0-f344-4101-adfb-590e3d9dfafe
Document Type: srp
Title: Draft Revision 6 – August 2015
Source: NUREG-0800
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1515/ML15159A946.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
Chapter: 7
Section ID: 7
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performance of the QA work. Computer equipment and software used to perform the QA work should be specified. Standards involve a method to ensure that approved standards, methods and tools are applied throughout the software life cycle. The SQAP should provide a method to establish and maintain the standards and methods for software QA, software V&V and software configuration management (CM). B.3.1.3.4 Review Guidance for the SQAP The SQAP is one of the more important plans which will be reviewed. The reviewer should determine not only that the SQAP exhibits the appropriate management, implementation and resource characteristics discussed above, but also that following the SQAP will result in high quality software that will perform the intended safety function. The staff’s review samples the design process and products rather than performing a 100 percent check of every function and every line of code, to evaluate the effectiveness of the applicant or licensee or vendor QA and V&V efforts. The staff samples various items to determine that the applicant or licensee or vendor QA and V&V efforts were performed correctly. It is expected that the thread audit and other samples of the quality of the software product will not find any errors not already discovered and documented by either the QA organization or the V&V team. If one or more errors are found, this indicates a potential weakness in the effectiveness of the QA organization. 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix B, allows the licensee to delegate the work of establishing and executing the QA program, but the licensee shall retain responsibility therefore. If the applicant or licensee does delegate the QA program to the vendor, the reviewer should determine how the applicant or licensee retains the responsibility, and how the applicant or licensee determines that the quality of the software is sufficient. The organization of the software QA organization should be checked to ensure that there is sufficient authority and