R&D software development standards and their operation

Abstract

The NTT Service Innovation Laboratories has created original software development standards for various quality levels from product incubation through to finished commercial products. These standards have been in operation for about four years and have been applied to approximately 200 software products, most of which were provided to business companies of the NTT Group. The developers and researchers in our laboratories have secured the quality and identified the risk of the products before releasing them under the responsibility of the authorized organization. This article describes our latest R&D (research and development) software development standards, including their features, operation, effects, and future developments.