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Quality management standard BS5740/ISO9001 is a key technology for UK and Europe in the 1990s. This paper shows that the relevance of BS5750/ISO9001 is limited and suggests that standards bodies must develop and endorse new standards to ensure that software quality improvement programmes continue to be adopted by the information technology industry.
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Avison, D.E., Shah, H.U. & Wilson, D.N. Software quality standards in practice: the limitations of using ISO-9001 to support software development. Software Quality Journal 3, 105–111 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00213633
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