Architectural decisions have a great impact on the consequent quality of software systems. As a result, it is important to evaluate how a software architecture meets its quality demands. Though much focus has been placed on modeling and describing the software architecture as a design artifact, we found that relatively little is known about the current experience with software architecture eval...

Software architectural evaluation becomes a familiar practice in software engineering community for developing quality software. Architectural evaluation reduces software development effort and costs, and enhances the quality of the software by verifying the addressability of quality requirements and identifying potential risks. There have been several methods and techniques to evaluate softwar...

The main research object of the paper is investigation and proposal of the comprehensive Learning Object Repositories (LORs) quality evaluation tool suitable for their multiple criteria decision analysis, evaluation and optimisation. Both LORs ‘internal quality’ and ‘quality in use’ evaluation (decision making) criteria are analysed in the paper. The authors have analysed several well-known LOR...

Agile techniques may produce software faster as well as enhance software quality so that they fulfill quality requirements of the product. In this paper we have considered some quality factors and we have shown how agile techniques enhance software quality. We have presented an agile development life cycle that showing its software quality support processes. Finally we have shown summarization ...

Many software architecture evaluation methods, proposed by the research community, have a common problem of engaging the same architects to perform architecture design and evaluation. This violates the independence of quality assurance and hence may lead to biased evaluation, thereby resulting in inferior architectural design. In this paper, we analyze current approaches and issues to software ...

Software quality evaluation has always been an important part of software business. The quality evaluation process is usually based on hierarchical quality models that measure various aspects of software quality and deduce a characterization of the product quality being evaluated. The particular nature of open source software has rendered existing models inappropriate for detailed quality evalu...

In last decade, software engineering research increasingly focused on software quality enhancement and evaluation, whereas most of these researches concentrate on the internal/ development perspective. However, users mainly care in the quality of performs intended functions efficiently without knowing how the software product was developed, how it is work from inside, or it is internal quality....

Nowadays, many users and organizations are interested in acquiring COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) software products instead of building software systems themselves as acquisition reduces development costs. COTS products are usually provided in a packaged style without the source code but with many ready-to-use functions. To assure the proper level of quality, many organizations provide quality...