The role of process standards within ECBS work

Primarily stimulated through our work within the German Computer Societies Task Force on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS), we investigated the relationships between recent engineering process standardization efforts and current ECBS research. We showed that these have to be linked together more closely to achieve real progress in defining a sound basis for operating and managing the ECBS process. This paper is concerned with these relationships. It defines both the technical contents of process standards and how ECBS work can contribute to evaluation, evolution, and operationalization of process standards.<>