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Software Product Quality: Ensuring a Common Goal

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Trustworthy Software Development Processes (ICSP 2009)

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Software qualities are in many cases tacit and hard to measure. Thus, there is a potential risk that they get lower priority than deadlines, cost and functionality. Yet software qualities impact customers, profits and even developer efficiency. This paper presents a method to evaluate the priority of software qualities in an industrial context. The method is applied in a case study, where the ISO 9126 model for software quality is combined with Theory-W to create a process for evaluating the alignment between success-critical stakeholder groups in the area of software product quality. The results of an exploratory case study using this tool is then presented and discussed. It is shown that the method provides valuable information about software qualities.

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  1. School of Engineering, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

    Sebastian Barney & Claes Wohlin

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  1. Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.4 South Fourth Street, Zhong Guan Cun, 100190, Beijing, China

    Qing Wang

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada

    Vahid Garousi

  3. Department of Systems Engineering, Naval Postgraduate School, Bullard Hall, Room 201J, 777 Dyer Road, CA 93943, Monterey, USA

    Raymond Madachy

  4. Simula Research Laboratory, P.O.Box 134, 1325, Lysaker, Norway

    Dietmar Pfahl

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Barney, S., Wohlin, C. (2009). Software Product Quality: Ensuring a Common Goal. In: Wang, Q., Garousi, V., Madachy, R., Pfahl, D. (eds) Trustworthy Software Development Processes. ICSP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5543. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01680-6_24

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