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Measuring the Software Product Quality during the Software Development Life-Cycle: An International Organization for Standardization Standards Perspective

Rafa E. Al-Qutaish

Abstract

Problem statement: The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) published a set of international standards related to the software engineering, such as ISO 12207 and ISO 9126. However, there is a set of cross-references between these two standards. Approach: The ISO 9126 on software product quality and ISO 12207 on software life cycle processes had been analysed to investigate the relationships between them and to make a mapping from the ISO 9126 quality characteristics to the ISO 12207 activities and vers versa. Results: This study presented a set of comments and suggestions to improve the ISO 9126. Conclusion: The weaknesses of the cross-references between the two ISO standards had been highlighted. In addition, this study provided a number of comments and suggestions to be taken into account on the next version of the ISO 9126 international standard.

Journal of Computer Science
Volume 5 No. 5, 2009, 392-397

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2009.392.397

Submitted On: 9 January 2009 Published On: 30 May 2009

How to Cite: Al-Qutaish, R. E. (2009). Measuring the Software Product Quality during the Software Development Life-Cycle: An International Organization for Standardization Standards Perspective. Journal of Computer Science, 5(5), 392-397. https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2009.392.397

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Keywords

  • ISO 9126
  • ISO 12207
  • ISO software engineering standards
  • software life cycle processes
  • software product quality evaluation
  • software product measurement