Tool Support for ISO 14598 based Code Quality Assessments

Harald Gruber, Ch. Körner, Reinhold Plösch, Stefan Schiffer

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Abstract

There is empirical evidence, that the internal quality of software has an important impact on the external, i.e., user perceptible software quality. Our Evaluation Method for Internal Software Quality (EMISQ) – based on the ISO 14598 standard for the evaluation of software products – provides the methodological framework for an expert centred assessment of internal software quality, which is supported by metric values and other findings provided by off-the-shelf static code analysis tools. To perform code quality assessments in a timely and efficient manner, it is inevitable to have tool support tailored to the needs of the evaluators. For that purpose we developed the Eclipsed based tool Software Product Quality Reporter (SPQR) that supports the EMISQ method to a large extent – from the formulation of project-specific quality models up to the generation of preliminary code quality reports. The application of SPQR already proved its usefulness in the execution of EMISQ projects.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, QUATIC, Lisbon, Portugal, September 12-14, 2007
PublisherIEEE
Pages21-29
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)978-0-7695-2948-6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2007

Fields of science

  • 102006 Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW)
  • 102015 Information systems
  • 102016 IT security
  • 102020 Medical informatics
  • 102022 Software development
  • 102027 Web engineering
  • 502032 Quality management
  • 502050 Business informatics
  • 503015 Subject didactics of technical sciences
  • 102034 Cyber-physical systems
  • 509026 Digitalisation research
  • 102040 Quantum computing 

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