This standard establishes requirements for initiating, planning, controlling, and executing the Software Quality Assurance (SQA) processes of a software development or maintenance project. This standard is harmonized with the software life cycle process of ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207:20081 and the information content requirements of ISO/IEC/IEEE 15289:2011. NOTE—Annex A presents detailed explanations and mappings between ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207:2008 and IEEE Std 730-2014 subclauses. NOTE--Annex A presents detailed explanations and mappings between ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207:2008 and IEEE Std 730(TM)-2014 subclauses.