A Quality Standard for Software Components

• Régis Patrick Silva Simão UNIFOR
• Arnaldo Dias Belchior UNIFOR

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbqs.2002.16218

Abstract

The success of component-based applications depends on many factors. Software component quality is one of the most important. Quality characteristics, in conformity to ISO/IEC 9126, may be used as goals in development, selection and acquisition of components, as well as elements for predicting the properties of final applications. This work identifies and organizes quality characteristics and subcharacteristics of major relevance to software components and defines dimensions of quality that change the degree of characteristic’s and subcharacteristic’s importance, so as to come out with a quality standard for them considering one of the dimensions of quality. This standard is the result of a field survey, carried out with developers of componentsand component-based applications. The survey’s data were analyzed through a software quality evaluation method.

Keywords: quality evaluation, component quality, software metrics

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