As Component-based Software Development (CBSD) starts to be effectively used, some software vendors have commenced to successfully sell and licence commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components. One of the most critical processes in CBSD is the selection of the COTS components that meet the user’s requirements. Current proposals have shown how to deal with the functional aspects of this evaluation...

Why is this quantification of quality so important? Almost all of the institutions (airlines, banks, manufacturers, universities, etc.) that use software in their operations find themselves facing sharply increasing international competition. As our global society becomes more dependent on information (as contrasted to capital or labor) in the production of goods and services, the pressures for...

Software quality should be evaluated from different perspectives; we highlight the internal and external ones (ISO/IEC, 2002). Specially, internal quality evaluation depends on the software architecture (or design) and programming aspects rather than on the product behaviour. On the other hand, architectural evaluation methods tend to apply scenarios for assessing the architecture respect to qu...

The software engineering community has moved from corrective methods to preventive methods shifting the emphasis from product quality improvement to process quality improvement. Inspections at the end of the production line have been replaced by design walkthroughs and built-in quality assurance techniques throughout the development lifecycle. Process models such as the Spiral, V, W and X-Model...

the present study aimed to investigate and identify factors affecting the intention to buy of islamic azad university students to foreign brands of clothing among the students of this university in tehran has been carried out. in which the impact of individual characteristics (unique needs and brand attitude) and normative characteristics of students (normative influence and brand awareness) on...

Open source software has witnessed an exponential growth in the last two decades and it is playing an increasingly important role in many companies and organizations leading to the formation of open source software ecosystems. In this paper we present a quality model that will allow the evaluation of those ecosystems in terms of their relevant quality characteristics such as health or activenes...