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I run a company which develops medical devices, many of which combine mechanical, electronic and software engineering. It's well known (and a running joke) that

I run a company which develops medical devices, many of which combine mechanical, electronic and software engineering. It's well known (and a running joke) that software engineers from non-medical fields think it is acceptable to ship their product with serious defects. It takes a long time and a lot of training to get them up to the level that we need, more so than for mechies and sparkies.

noir_lord 11y ago
Do you have any solid books etc for the kind of processes you use?
- blokeley 11y ago
  For software in medical devices, the process that's accepted by the regulatory authorities is ISO 62304 http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=38421 http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=38421 That's a good start