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What is the definition of Software Quality?

Even before we try and define what is software quality, it may be a good idea to understand what is meant by term quality? Quality means different to different people. One may call a product or high services of high quality if it serves their needs. Thus, for some people, a cell phone can be of high quality if it provides sound of great quality. However, for others, the ability to browse through social network can be criteria of judging a cellphone (also called as smartphone) quality. To standardize, software quality may be defined as a set of characteristics can be used to measure the following: Outcome of interaction with …

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ISO/IEC Standards for Software Quality Compliance

What are various different ISO/IEC standards related with software quality compliance? ISO/IEC have published a set of standards useful for Software QUAlity Requirements and Evaluation also termed as SQUARE. SQuaRE is a series of International Standards (25000-25099) edited by the ISO/IEC organisation and related to Systems and Software Quality. Following are different ISO/IEC standards under SQUARE umbrella: ISO/IEC 25000 — Guide to SQuaRE ISO/IEC 25001 — Planning and management ISO/IEC 25010 — System and software quality models ISO/IEC 25012 — Data quality model ISO/IEC 25020 — Measurement reference model and guide ISO/IEC 25021 — Quality measure elements ISO/IEC 25030 — Quality requirements ISO/IEC 25040 — Evaluation process ISO/IEC 25045 — …

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