This standard establishes a required minimum contents for Software Quality Assurance plans. It is directed toward the development and maintenance of critical software, that is, where the failure could cause large financial or social losses. The orientation is toward delineating all of the planned and systematic actions on a particular project that would provide adequate confidence that the software product conforms to established technical requirements. This standard correlates the content of software quality assurance plans as defined in 730 and the content of such plans as defined in IEEE 12207.1.