SCF — A framework supporting achieving and assessing conformity with standards

Standards Conformity Framework (SCF) presented in this paper encompasses methods and tools which provide support for application of standards and other normative documents. The approach taken focuses on development, assessment and maintenance of an electronic document which demonstrates conformity. Such a document contains an argument structure developed in accordance with the Trust-IT methodology. The paper discusses details of the SCF approach, provides the definition of SCF application processes, presents a developed software tool, which supports the method, and reports on the experience collected in numerous projects of application of the framework.