Software quality is the degree to which software possesses a desired combination of attributes (e.g., reliability, interoperability). In this paper we describe a few principles for analyzing a software architecture to determine if it exhibits certain quality attributes. We show how analysis techniques indigenous to the various quality attribute communities can provide a foundation for performin...

introduction: today, medical software are used in different aspects of healthcare varying from simple data processing to collection and interpretation of physiological information and education of nurses and physicians. to ensure use of medical software, they must be constantly evaluated based on specific criteria. since there is no organized evaluation system and comprehensive criteria for eva...

The focus of the paper is evaluation of the software development process regardless of the underlying software development approach. The process of evaluation is scrutinized from two perspectives: (1) “measurement for management”, when results of evaluation are used for managing and improvement of the software development, and (2) “measurement for analysis”, when results of evaluation are used ...

The paper highlights some evaluation methods to assess the quality characteristics of the text entities. The main concepts used in building and evaluation processes of the text entities are presented. Also, some aggregated metrics for orthogonality measurements are presented. The evaluation process for automatic evaluation of the text entities is made by software application. These ones impleme...

Producing software products of good quality requires that quality requirements are taken into account as early as possible. In theory, the first place in which quality requirements can be addressed is architectural models of software. However, in practice, the software’s architecture is only used to describe the functionality of the developed software. This means that the implemented software m...

Software engineering utilizes selected knowledge sources from which the fundamental concepts for the software solution can be extracted. The quality of the adopted knowledge sources intrinsically defines the quality of the software solution. This quality of knowledge sources is, on the one hand, determined by its objectivity value, and on the other hand, by its relevance value for the given pro...

The quality of software depends on its maintainability. Software under evolution is modified and enhanced to accommodate new requirements. As a result, the software becomes more complex and deviates from its original design, in turn lowering the quality. Program Slicing and refactoring as program re-engineering approaches, makes software systems maintainable. Effective slicing and refactoring r...

The architecture of a software system is crucial since it often affects and limits the quality attributes of the system, e.g., performance and maintainability. In this paper we evaluate three communication components suggested for use in a software architecture using prototype-based evaluation. We evaluate the performance quantitatively, and also present qualitative results on portability and m...

Quality is a concept which is hard to define and measure. Within software engineering, the term quality is usually taken to mean software product quality. However, with increasing awareness and focus on the software development process, quality considerations should be applied here as well. An interesting approach is to consider if the current way of doing product quality assessments can be app...

The quality of a software product is a main objective that every interactive system should aspire. There are many challenges to achieve this quality that require a previous characterization to ensure it. The International Standards Quality Models help to characterize the quality of a software system. But, there are some products that present „special‟ quality requirements. In this paper we focu...