Experience has shown that poor strategy or bad tactics adopted when planning a software project influence the final quality of that product, even when the whole development process is undertaken with a quality approach. This paper addresses the quality attributes of the strategy and tactics of the software project plan that should be in place in order to deliver a good software product. It pres...

This paper describes PATT, a project assessment and tracking tool, created with the purpose of processing software metrics in order to provide managers with development information on software projects. Based on international software standards, including CMMI, ISO/IEC 9126 and ISO/IEC 15939, it collects metrics from projects artifacts, analyzes them, and spend efforts on calculating overall de...

This paper describes the layout of a project that we want to discuss with the scientific community. In the project, we will validate the automated assessment of the internal quality of software according to the ISO 9126 quality model. In selected real world projects, automatically derived quality metric values shall be compared with expert opinions and information from bug and test databases. A...

The e-Learning systems are one of the areas that have proven their own importance in promoting the use of IT technologies in academia environment. However, the growing need for such systems requires the adoption of a quality design approach based on a recognized quality frameworks and standards comprising sets of well defined criteria. This paper investigates the existing quality frameworks (SC...

As mobile devices, access to geographical information, and migration from web 1.0 to web 2.0 advance, users started playing the role of consumers, producers, and communicators. As a result, several internet systems have spawned that collect Volunteered Geographical Information (VGI). VGI collection systems often need to be developed within short timeframes. This paper presents a comparative ana...

We present a comprehensive model for quantitative evaluation and comparison of search engines. The model is based on the LSP method for system evaluation. The basic contribution of our approach is the aggregation of all relevant attributes that reflect functionality, usability, and performance of search engines. In this respect our model is fully consistent with the ISO 9126 standard for softwa...