Community-based software development is a promising model to help reduce the pressures such as development costs, human resources access, new market development, and building business competencies. But the big concern is how to ensure the quality of the outsourcing service. In this paper, a service quality evaluation method for community-based software outsourcing process has been proposed. A s...

It is difficult to understand, let alone improve the quality of software without the knowledge of its software development process and software product. There must be some measurement process to predict the software development, and to evaluate software products. This paper provides a brief view on Software Quality, Software Metrics and Software Metrics methods that will predict and measure the...

This paper is about a model that describes the maturity of software products and their evaluation. The model is called the SCOPE Maturity Model (SMM). It is based on the assumption that different evaluation levels can be defined for software products. The model provides acquirers and users as well as producers of software a clear overview of the characteristics of product evaluation on a speci...

Quality evaluation is a critical aspect in the area of software development. If software quality problems could be found in the early design phase, the cost for software development and maintaining will be reduced. In this paper we propose an evaluation framework including a software error model and its corresponding experimental frame, which is based on Discrete Event System Specification (DEV...

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Why has there been so little progress in the quantitative evaluation of those quality attributes concerned with software design? This paper seeks to provide an answer by arguing that progress is dependent on the adoption of a programme of cumulative empirical research. Such a programme consists of original empirical research, independent replication to investigate and verify original results, a...

It is difficult to understand, let alone improve the quality of software without the knowledge of its software development process and software product. There must be some measurement process to predict the software development, and to evaluate software products. This paper provides a brief view on Software Quality, Software Metrics and Software Metrics methods that will predict and measure the...

Relatively little has been published on the issue of teaching software quality management. This paper reports a case study in teaching a graduate-level software quality management course using industry assessments as a learning vehicle. We explain the contents of the course, describe the process assessments the students perform at local software organizations as their term project, and summariz...