Software Quality: Definitions and Strategic Issues

Quality - critique

One of the problems with the software quality models is that they were published in 1977/78 and in the intervening years enormous technological advancements have taken place. In this paper some of them have been highlighted. Perhaps more of them need to be reviewed so as to better reflect those changes. Perhaps some new additions are also needed. It is also extraordinary that so few of the quality factors get any mention in international and national standards relating to quality assurance.