Standards harmonization: theory and practice

摘要

As software engineering (and other) standards are developed over a period of years or decades, the suite of standards thus developed often begins to lose any cohesion that it originally possessed. This has led to discussions in the standards communities of possible collaborative development, interoperability and harmonization of their existing standards. Here, I assess how such harmonization efforts may be aided by recent research results to create better quality standards to replace the status quo.