Agile Methods for Safety-Critical Systems: A Primer Using Medical Systems

摘要

Quality and safety are integral aspects of software-driven medical and diagnostic devices. The authors lament that ensuring quality, safety and performance through validation and documentation often is viewed by organizations as an unavoidable cost and not as a benefit. The authors saw an alternative to this outlook in an approach used by agile teams that integrated quality control activities into the development process leading to better and safer products.