A very good summary (the book is thin because topics are handled at a high level perspective and assume you are already a software engineer) of the ESA/ECSS standards:
Software Engineering Standards: C. Mazza, J. Fairclough, B. Melton, D. De Pablo, A. Scheffer: 9780131065680: Amazon.com: Books
Quoting:
"These standards define the essential aspects of software development and have been produced by removing all space-specific aspects from the European Space Agency's software engineering standards. They cover the whole software engineering process at a uniform level of abstraction."
