Software product quality can be defined as the features and characteristics of the product that meet the user needs. The quality of any software can be achieved by following a well defined software process. These software process results into various metrics like Project metrics, Product metrics and Process metrics. Software quality depends on the process which is carried out to design and deve...

This chapter presents a teaching framework for agile quality—that is, the way quality issues are perceived in agile software development environments. The teaching framework consists of nine principles, the actual implementation of which is varied and should be adjusted for different specific teaching environments. This chapter outlines the principles and addresses their contribution to learner...

This paper proposes and examines a model of the relationship between elements of product design and software quality in open source software (OSS) development projects. Research suggests that product design, or product architecture, affects work processes and outputs in the production of goods and services. In the case of software, we therefore hypothesize that product architecture affects char...

As software production achieves a growing importance in the embedded systems world, quality evaluation of embedded software and its impact on physical properties of embedded systems becomes increasingly relevant. Although there are tools for embedded software design that improve software specification and verification, we are still short of a tool that supports the designer’s decisions on the b...

The new paradigm of computing or information systems is ubiquitous computing systems. The technology-oriented issues of ubiquitous computing systems have made researchers pay much attention to the feasibility study of the technologies rather than building quality assurance indices or guidelines. In this context, measuring quality is the key to developing high-quality ubiquitous computing produc...

Telemedicine and telehealth are disciplines of e-Health that can facilitate access to treatment, enhance treatment quality and reduce costs. With the advances in information technologies, its is easier to use telemedicine and telehealth applications instead of direct contact with the health care provider. In this scenario, telehealth represents the delivery of health care through distance and t...

When organizations implement software process improvement programs they are seeking to increase productivity, reduce costs and enhance the quality of the resulting software. In fact, the quality of software products depends, to a great extent, on the processes used for their development and/or maintenance. However, despite this belief concerning the influence of the process on product quality, ...

Software understandability is one of important characteristics of software quality because it can influence cost or reliability at software evolution in reuse or maintenance. But it is difficult to evaluate software understandability because understanding is an internal process of humans. So, we propose “software overhaul” as a method for externalizing process of understanding software systems ...