Re: Questions about validation/verification done for Git Software

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: May 8, 2017, 17:21 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79kaLMHWth_t7LBpvtAKJQvseS34+RCKoedeqFosUxOiaPg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <504208edac024b2dba0c1743dc86683e@AMUSATLWP20005.alereinc.com>

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Robertson, Todd <Todd.Robertson@alere.com> wrote:

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> Hello,
>
> I'm a Sr. Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Epocal Inc. in Ottawa, Ontario,
> Canada.  We are a medical device manufacturer that is required to comply with
> the Food & Drug Administration's (FDA) regulations.
> I'm in charge of what is known as Non-Product Software, essentially any piece of
> SW that is used in the day-to-day work of creating our products.
> Part of complying with the FDA regulations is to ensure that all Non-Product Software
> has been validated.
>
> Some of our engineers are planning on using your software "Git" for their software
> development processes (latest version) to replace our current software "SVN" and I was
> hoping you could answer some questions for me?

How is svn validated for you?

> Are you able to provide me with a copy of your Test Plans and/or Test Cases for the "Git" product?

Tests are found inside the t/ directory in your copy of Git[1]. [1] obtained e.g. via "git clone https://github.com/git/git"

Note that these are just tests; nothing formal attached.

> Is the software FDA certified?

I am not aware of that.

Checkout https://git-scm.com/ and for legal questions contact https://sfconservancy.org/ (via https://git-scm.com/sfc)