Evaluation of Environments for Portals Development: A Case Study

ware engineering faces today is software quality, due to the growing number of products and services on the market and the consequent increase in competition. There is a worldwide trend toward quality, and software is no exception. The subject has been a cause of much concern to software researchers, who tend to focus on two main objectives: how to get quality software and how to estimate its quality. This article analyzes the quality of a business portal development environment (BPDE). To do so, a quality model has been proposed. It contains a series of selection criteria based on metrics for estimating the quality of a particular development environment. Additionally, an evaluation of the model is presented through a case study where it was applied to a commercial BPDE. This measurement was possible thanks to the implementation of a business portal prototype. It should be noted that the portal was developed using the rational unified process (RUP) methodology and evaluated in accordance with ISO/IEC 14598-5 as the software evaluation methodology applied. One of the main advantages of the solution is that it puts forward a quality model for each BPDE. Furthermore, any organization PORTAL DEVELOPMENT