Software Quality: Definitions and Strategic Issues
In general, software quality is crucial in software engineering. Read this article and explore the various definitions of quality and the quality models. Notice the priority of quality factors and how software quality can be measured.
2. Building quality into software products
2.8. 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.