The demand for increased software quality has resulted in quality being more of differentiator between products than it ever has been before. For this reason, software developers need objective and valid measures for use in the evaluation and improvement of product quality from the initial stages of development. Class diagrams are a key artifact in the development of object-oriented (OO) softwa...

Software Quality Engineering is an emerging discipline that is concerned with improving the approach to software quality. It is important that this discipline be firmly rooted in a quality model satisfying its needs. In order to define the needs of this discipline, the meaning of quality is broadly defined by reviewing the literature on the subject. Software Quality Engineering needs a quality ...

Web-based asynchronous store-and-forward telemedicine systems for diagnostic purposes, which enable the consultation of one (or more) distant health care professional(s) by a locally present health care professional concerning a patient‘s diagnosis and treatment can significantly improve healthcare services. Yet, developing high-quality asynchronous store-andforward telemedicine systems (ASFTSs...

Being software engineers, we have spent years of studies and practice in software engineering, which has enabled us to deploy an analytical way of thinking. Our engineering approach makes us decompose abstract terms –such as software quality– until we reach quantifiable, measurable characteristics. It is this approach with regard to software quality that had lead to the development of commonly ...

This paper examines current approaches to usability metrics and proposes a new approach for quantifying software quality in use, based on modeling the dynamic relationships of the attributes that affect software usability. The Quality in Use Integrated Map (QUIM) is proposed for specifying and identifying quality in use components, which brings together different factors, criteria, metrics and ...

Automated testing tools helps the testers to quantify the quality of software by testing the software .To quantify the quality of software there is always a requirement of good testing tools, which satisfy the testing requirement as per the project. Although there is a wide range of testing tools available in the market and they vary in approach, quality, usability and other characteristics. Se...

Principles of software evaluation can be used for quality assessment and measurement for networked services and distributed applications. A specific method for measuring important service characteristics is therefore presented. The method and the measurement procedure allows to compare the actual characteristics of service quality with the required characteristics and thresholds. The approach c...

Probably everyone has an idea about the meaning of quality. However, when it comes to quality in the real world, i.e. in conjunction with a software development project, disagreements between the persons involved often lead to further problems. Especially in the case of customer complaints about faults in a software product, it seems to be unclear not only what the requirements are, but also if...