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a. A TQP, Tool Development Plan, Tool Verification Plan, Tool Quality Assurance
Plan, and Tool Configuration Management Plan that cover the complete tool life
cycle should be developed. These plans may be separate or combined, as appropriate
for the specific project needs. As an example, a tool supplier may propose a
qualifiable tool and develop plans that cover only the tool development process (see
section 11.3 for commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) tool qualification), but the
description of the Tool Operational Requirements definition and tool operational
integration processes may be addressed in a separate set of tool plans. Each plan and
the supporting standards are briefly described below and detailed in section 10.
1. The TQP (see 10.1.2) serves as the primary means for communicating the
proposed tool life cycle and development methods to the certification authority
for agreement. The TQP defines the means of compliance with this document and
any other applicable guidance (for example, a domain or project-specific
document).
2. The Tool Development Plan (see 10.1.3) defines the tool life cycle, tool
development environment and processes, and the means by which the tool
development process objectives will be satisfied.
3. The Tool Verification Plan (see 10.1.4) defines the means by which the tool
verification process objectives will be satisfied.
4. The Tool Configuration Management Plan (see 10.1.5) defines the means by
which the tool configuration management process objectives will be satisfied.
5. The Tool Quality Assurance Plan (see 10.1.6) defines the means by which the
tool quality assurance process objectives will be satisfied.
b. Tool development standards should be developed. The purpose of these standards is
to define the rules and constraints for the tool development processes. The tool
development standards include the Tool Requirements Standards (see 10.1.7), the
Tool Design Standards (see 10.1.8), and the Tool Code Standards (see 10.1.9). The
tool verification process uses these standards as a basis for evaluating the compliance
of actual outputs of a process with intended outputs.
c. The tool verification environment(s) should be defined. The verification
environment(s) should be shown to be representative of the tool operational
environment. Care should be taken to identify the operating system, additional
hardware, additional software components, etc. It should be noted that it may be
necessary to have several tool verification environments if there are potentially
multiple tool operational environments (for example, a tool may be used on multiple
platforms with different versions of operating systems, depending on the specific
operational needs).
d. Reviews of the tool planning process should be conducted to ensure that the plans
and standards comply with the guidance of this document and the means to execute
them exist.
e. An assessment on all the tools used in the framework of the tool life cycle processes
should be conducted in order to identify the need for qualification of these tools.
Qualification of these tools is needed when processes of this document are
eliminated, reduced, or automated by the use of a tool without its output verified as
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