According to IEEE, software quality is the degree to which software possesses a desired combination of attributes. Quality attributes have been of interest to the software community since 1970 and in the past few years this interest has increase. However, still is not clear how product quality should apply in the development process. The need to know what quality characteristics influence a spe...

Background: Issues with software product quality are commonly reported when organisations engage in outsourcing relationships. To address this issue, value-based software engineering literature emphasises the need for all success-critical stakeholder groups to work towards a mutually agreed goal. Aim: This paper presents a case study that aims to compare and contrast the priority two groups pla...

Medical translation systems present an intriguing research area as language barriers can become life-threatening when health issues come into place. There is however a lack of common evaluation techniques, making the fair comparison of such systems a difficult task. In this work we try to remedy this deficiency by proposing a quality model based on the ISO/IEC 9126 standard that could serve as ...

2000 To my family iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I express my sincere gratitude to my advisor, Dr. Sumi Helal, for giving me the opportunity to work on this challenging topic and for providing continuous guidance and feedback during the course of this work and thesis writing. Without his encouragement this thesis would not have been possible. Dr. Frank for agreeing to attend my defense on my last minute r...

We present in this paper a framework embracing different aspects involved in COTS component selection that influence the success of this activity. Playing a crucial role in this framework appears the concept of quality model, aimed at structuring the description of the quality of COTS components. We propose a methodology for building quality models based on the ISO/IEC 9126-1 standard which all...

Estimating the risk of in-sourcing is key to the success of the project, but often the risks are hidden in the software being in-sourced. In this thesis I will explore, using measures on the source code, to evaluate the maintainability state of a project, by applying a proposed Maintainability Model. The model defines measures for each maintainability characteristic of ISO 9126, and grades them...

The need to select a component among a set of possible candidates that offer similar functionality opens the need to count with objective methods that help developers in this difficult task. One necessary step is to define a set of metrics that offer useful and simple results for the component selection process. In this position paper we present a collection of software component metrics focuse...

Despite the widespread use of e-learning systems and the considerable investment in purchasing or developing them in house, there is no consensus on a standard framework for evaluating system quality. This paper proposes the ISO 9126 Quality Model as a useful tool for evaluating such systems, particularly for teachers and educational administrators. The authors demonstrate the validity of the m...

This work describes a new web system to aid project management that was created to correct the principal deficiencies identified in systems having a common purpose which are at present available, as well as to follow the guidelines that are proposed in the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBoK) and the quality characteristics described in the ISO/IEC 9126 norm. As from the adopted methodo...

Allon G. Percus, Gabriel Istrate, Bruno Gonçalves, Robert Z. Sumi, and Stefan Boettcher Information Sciences Group, Computer, Computational and Statistical Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA and Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA eAustria Research Institute, Bd. V. Pârvan 4, cam. 045B, RO-300223 Timişoara, Romani...