purpose: the qualitative evaluation of iranian children and young adults' websites. methodology/approach: it is a survey study using a checklist based on iso 9126-1 and web-qem model. data gathered from 33 websites. results: iranian children and young adults' websites are not in a desirable status considering usability (average=0.39) and functionality (average=0.44). also, they are st...

The mapping of draft standards work in the area of product quality measurement to industry practice has lead to a discussion on the importance of the previous knowledge of the design and support environment is necessary for correct interpretation of static source code metrics. We have found no intersection between the proposed internal metrics of the ISO9126 draft standard and the one extracted...

The paper describes an approach, which we developed to assess the expected quality of software for a huge governmental system. The assessment was done on behalf of the customer, and not of the development company, and was performed within two years along with the software development process. Our approach was based on a modification to GQM and was focused on the evaluation of the quality of met...

One of the essential activities when providing a software system in general, is to evaluate the system based on qualitative and quantitative measures. We present in this paper the design and implementation of an evaluation framework for the OntoNL Framework, a natural language interface generator for knowledge repositories. We provide the definition and description of the measures, the methodol...

This paper presents new practical approach to automated formal modeling and validation of quality requirements. It relies on two paramount software industry standards: ISO/IEC 9126 for software quality and XML for formal notation. The xNoFun language allows composing formal quality models not only manually but via requirement management CASE tool IBM Rational RequisitePro. Efficient runtime mod...

A model for software product quality is defined. It has been formulated by associating a set of qualitycarrying properties with each of the structural forms that are used to define the statements and statement components of a programming language. These quality-carrying properties are in turn linked to the highlevel quality attributes of the International Standard for Software Product Evaluatio...