The presented research investigates the possibilites and limitations of metrics in assessing the quality of (software) requirement specifications (SRS) and thereby aims to improve the understanding of the notion of quality for those specifications. Essentially, the idea is to define quality depending on the activites the SRS is used for in the engineering process. Based upon a common metamodel ...

Testing is an important quality assurance activity during development of automotive software. Automotive OEMs and suppliers use test case specifications to specify, mostly informal, test cases as well as supporting information like traces to requirements. While the quality of the test case specifications has a high influence on the quality of the subsequent testing, quality of informal automoti...

This paper analyzes two recently released image quality specifications for single-finger scanners and proposes three new specifications targeted to different types of applications. A comparison of the potential effects on fingerprint recognition accuracy of the various specifications is carried out using an approach based on the definition of “operational quality”. The experimental results show...

Agents are being recommended as a next generation model for revising and restructuring the complex distributed applications. So the task of engineering quality for agent systems has also become significant. As different stakeholders such as project managers, users, and practitioners have different interpretations of quality; an integrated specification of MAS quality that could satisfy all the ...