Increased popularity of open source software has led to a considerable proliferation of alternative software. However, this being the case, an evident lack of academic studies that would contribute to the evaluation of open source software for organizations has turned the process of selecting the most suitable open source software product that meets the users’ quality requirements into an appea...

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...

Software architecture (SA) evaluation is a quality assurance technique that is increasingly attracting significant research and commercial interests. A number of SA evaluation methods have been developed. Most of these methods are scenario-based, which relies on the quality of the scenarios used for the evaluation. Most of the existing techniques for developing scenarios use stakeholders and re...

Context: Software Process Engineering promotes the systematic production of software by following a set of welldefined technical and management processes. A comprehensive management of these processes involves the accomplishment of a number of activities such as model design, verification, validation, deployment and evaluation. However, the deployment and evaluation activities need more researc...

There is an increasing community of researchers trying to draw attention to the importance of evaluation issues. Some approaches can be followed to evaluate the quality of software, but gives no guidance on how to construct a high quality software product and on how to use in practice this model across evaluation process. IS are built upon Software, and the quality of Software effects, if not d...

Successfully competing in the software development market requires controlling the quality of the product. This not only involves identifying what software attributes are valued by the target market, but also measuring and managing those attributes over the course of the software development cycle. This represents an emerging point of view in software engineering, as explicit considerations of ...

Software is playing a crucial role in modern societies. The demand for software quality is increasing and is setting it as a differentiator which can determine the success or failure of a software product. Moreover delivering high quality products is becoming not just a competitive advantage but a necessary factor for companies to be successful [1]. There are many quality measures but a thoroug...

quantitative and model-based prediction of security in the architecture design stage facilitates early detection of design faults hence reducing modification costs in subsequent stages of software life cycle. however, an important question arises with respect to the accuracy of input parameters. in practice, security parameters can rarely be estimated accurately due to the lack of sufficient kn...

the main objective of this descriptive- suvey research was to analyze components of quality of e-learning in the iranian agricultural higher education. the statistical population of the study consisted of the graduate students of iranian agricultural colleges (n=8541), out of which 286 people determined as sample using cochran formula and proportionate stratified sampling technique. the data we...

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...