SAE AS 9115:2010-04-27

The requirements of 9100 apply with the following clarification for software.

This document supplements the 9100 standard requirements for deliverable software and contains quality management system requirements for organizations that design, develop, and/or produce deliverable software for the aviation, space, and defense industry. This includes, as required, support software that is used in the development and maintenance of deliverable software. The deliverable software may be stand-alone, embedded, or loadable into a target computer.

Where the use of Hardware Description Language (HDL) or high order language is utilized as the design source of electronic hardware [e.g., Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), Programmable Logic Device (PLD)], the organization and customer shall agree on the extent of applicability of this supplement.

NOTE 1: For airborne electronic hardware guidance, see RTCA/DO-254 or EUROCAE ED-80; and for product realization requirements, see 9100.

Where Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) or non-developmental software is integrated into a deliverable product, the organization and customer shall agree on the extent of applicability of this supplement.

For the purposes of this document, the terms “product” and “software product” are considered synonymous.

NOTE 2: This document is independent of the life cycle models (e.g., waterfall, spiral, evolutionary, incremental) or methodology (e.g., objected oriented design, unified modeling language, agile).

Rationale:
This is the initial release of 9115, which is an international supplement to 9100 providing clarification of the corresponding 9100 requirements, as necessary, for deliverable software. In some cases, where clarification is needed, it was necessary due to the complexity of software to decompose “shall” statements in 9100 into more granular requirements. Where no software clarification is required of the 9100 requirements, the following phrase will be presented: “The requirements of 9100 apply. No clarification required for software.”