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Questions about validation/verification done for Git Software

Subject: Questions about validation/verification done for Git Software

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3 messages between May 8, 2017 and May 9, 2017.

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Robertson, Todd· May 8, 2017, 17:14 UTC · lore

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?

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

Is the software FDA certified?

Please contact me with your reply and/or any questions you have.

Thank you, Todd Robertson Sr. Software QA Engineer Epocal Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada todd.robertson@alere.com 613-688-3982 ext.2229

Stefan Beller· May 8, 2017, 17:21 UTC · re: Robertson, Todd · lore

Re: Questions about validation/verification done for Git Software

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)

Junio C Hamano· May 9, 2017, 01:51 UTC · re: Robertson, Todd · lore

Re: Questions about validation/verification done for Git Software

"Robertson, Todd" <Todd.Robertson@alere.com> writes:

> Is the software FDA certified?

No, Git is toxic and are not approved for human consumption ;-).