Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 87c94eb7-1d88-4510-b85b-196ad319d0ae
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Software Unit Testing for Digital Computer Software Used in Safety Systems of Nuclear Power Plants + HISTORY - HISTORY 08/2012 – DG-1208 , Proposed Revision 1 08/1996 – DG-1057 , Proposed Revision 0 (Rev. 1)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1031/ML103120751.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.171
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account the need for (1) special controls, processes, test equipment, tools, and skills necessary to attain the required quality and (2) the verification of quality through inspections and tests. • Criterion III, “Design Control,” requires, in part, that measures be established for verifying and checking the adequacy of the design (e.g., through the performance of a suitable testing program) and that design control measures be applied to items such as the delineation of acceptance criteria for inspections and tests. • Criterion V, “Instructions, Procedures, and Drawings,” requires, in part, activities affecting quality be prescribed by documented instructions, procedures, or drawings of a type appropriate to the circumstances and that these activities be accomplished in accordance with these instructions, procedures, or drawings. Criterion V further requires that instructions, procedures, and drawings include appropriate quantitative or qualitative acceptance criteria for determining that important activities have been satisfactorily accomplished. • Criterion VI, “Document Control,” requires, in part, that all documents that prescribe activities affecting quality, such as instructions, procedures, and drawings, be subject to controls that ensure that documents, including changes, are reviewed for adequacy and approved for release by authorized personnel. • Criterion XI, “Test Control,” requires, in part, establishment of a test program to assure that all testing required to demonstrate that structures, systems, and components will perform satisfactorily in service is identified and performed in accordance with written test procedures that incorporate the requirements and acceptance limits contained in applicable design documents. Test procedures must include provisions for ensuring that all prerequisites for the given test have been met, that adequate test instrumentation is available and used, and that the test is performed under suitable