introduction: various types of software are used in health care organizations to manage information and care processes. the quality of software has been an important concern for both health authorities and designers of health information technology. thus, assessing the effect of software quality on the performance quality of healthcare institutions is essential. method: the most important healt...

The paper describes a method, which we used to evaluate the expected quality of software that was developed for a huge governmental system. The evaluation lasted nearly two years and was performed along with the software development process. The output that was expected by our customer consisted of a quality assessment accompanied by a set of recommendations on what to do in order to enhance th...

Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) provides for developers the ability to easily reuse and assemble software entities to build complex software. It is based on the composition of prefabricated software entities called components. In this context, the selection step is very important. It consists of searching and selecting appropriate software components from a set of candidate componen...

The users who use ready to use software product had better get the products’ quality information with classified by some kind of global standard metrics or technique for their evaluation. But many of those software products’ companies don’t provide the quality information because of the products are developed by their own development and evaluation process. But those users want to get quality i...

Software quality evaluation is an important issue in software development. In this work, we investigate the characteristics of software quality and discuss the evaluation attributes of software quality. We then present existing commonly used software evaluation methods. For the limitations of the existing methods, we propose to apply the principle of maximum coordination and subordination to th...