The United States’ Food and Drug Administration, FDA, imposes increasingly stringent criteria on pharmaceuticals intended for the American market. Even so, this market represents the all-important first step on the path to international success for new drugs.
Enormous sums of money and profitable licensing agreements are at stake whenever and wherever new medicines are developed. That’s what makes software testing such a crucial aspect in the quality assurance of the development process, at every link in the chain from sophisticated laboratory software to inventory control systems and financial programs.
System Verification monitors developments and demands within this sector closely to make sure that we can always offer our customers the very latest techniques in software testing.
Progress is measured by what constitutes the norm for good practice and standards. The International Organization for Standardization, ISO, has established an international consensus on good quality management practice through its ISO 9000 family of standards. ISO 9000 sets high quality standards for managing industrial production, an area in which software is becoming increasingly common as part of the product development process.
Ever increasing numbers of products are being tested in a computer before they are put into production. The pace of progress in this field has often meant that greater efforts have been made to construct the software than to take the time or trouble to make sure that it performs as intended. Today, however, many industrial companies have discovered the virtues of software testing prior to production in order to assure the quality of the end product.
Defence industry
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