The study statistically tests the proposition of the ISO/IEC 9126 standard that higher external quality (quality when software is executed) implies higher ‘quality in use’. For this purpose, the study based on 75 user survey data shows that individual external quality subcharacteristics are positively associated with user satisfaction as defined in ‘quality in use’. This study also investigates...

This paper discusses a methodological approach to define quality models (QM) for Web sites of any kind, including Web 2.0 sites. The approach stresses the practical use of a QM, in requirement definition and quality assessment, during design & development processes or during site operation. An important requirement for such QMs is organization mapping, which allows who is in charge of quality m...

Based on a set of case studies in eight European countries a method of software evaluation has been designed within ESPRIT Project SCOPE (Software evaluation and certification programme Europe). This method deals with several types of information: software characteristics and metrics, product and process information, and evaluation techniques. In order to be applicable the method is supported b...

− The paper deals with the measurement of software quality in frameworks for automatic test systems. In particular, the quality characterization of software components inside the Flexible Framework for Magnetic Measurements, developed at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), is illustrated with respect to the ISO 9126 reference model through the introduction of suitable metrics...

Software qualities are in many cases tacit and hard to measure. Thus, there is a potential risk that they get lower priority than deadlines, cost and functionality. Yet software qualities impact customers, profits and even developer efficiency. This paper presents a method to evaluate the priority of software qualities in an industrial context. The method is applied in an exploratory case study...

Oriental ink painting, called Sumi-e, is one of the most distinctive painting styles and has attracted artists around the world. Major challenges in Sumi-e simulation are to abstract complex scene information and reproduce smooth and natural brush strokes. To automatically generate such strokes, we propose to model the brush as a reinforcement learning agent, and let the agent learn the desired...