Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: 12dd3f35-6baa-4f6a-8372-84c90ef96a91
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Test Documentation for Digital Computer Software Used in Safety Systems of Nuclear Power Plants + HISTORY - HISTORY 08/2012 – DG-1207 , Proposed Revision 1 08/1996 – DG-1056 , Proposed Revision 0 (Rev. 1)
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 1
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0833/ML083370243.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-1.170
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uires, in part, the establishment and execution of a quality assurance program. • Criterion II, “Quality Assurance Program,” requires, in part, that the quality assurance program account for the need for 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 should be applied to items such as the delineation of acceptance criteria for inspections and tests. • Criterion V, “Instructions, Procedures, and Drawings,” requires, in part, that 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,” and XVII, “Quality Assurance Records,” provide for (1) the control of the issuance of documents, including changes thereto, that prescribe all activities that affect quality and (2) the maintenance of sufficient records to furnish evidence of activities that affect quality. The latter requires test records to identify the inspector or data recorder, the type of observation made, the results, the acceptability of the results, and the action taken in connection with any noted deficiencies. • 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