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Quality Characteristics for Software Components: Hierarchy and Quality Guides

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Component-Based Software Quality

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 2693))

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The success of software component applications dependsupon a number of factors, one of the most important being the quality of components. According to the ISO/IEC 9126 standard, quality characteristics can be used both as goals to be attained in the processes of developing, selecting or acquiring components and as criteria for predicting the properties of final applications. This chapter identifies the quality characteristics and sub-characteristics most relevant for software components and organizes them in dimensions that are critical to their assessment. A quality guide is presented, which was elaborated through a field research carried out with developers of components and component-based applications. A software quality evaluation model was used to treat collected data.

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  1. Masters Course in Applied Informatics, Universidade de Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Av. Washington Soares, 1321, CEP 60.811.341, Fortaleza, CE, Brasil

    Régis P. S. Simão & Arnaldo D. Belchior

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  1. Computing Sciences Department, GIISCo Research Group, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Buenos Aires 1400, 8300, Neuquén, Argentina

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  2. Dep. of Information Technologies & Systems - Escuela Superior de Informática, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Alarcos Research Group- Institute of Information Technologies & Systems, Ciudad Real, Spain

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  3. Universidad de Málaga, Spain

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Simão, R.P.S., Belchior, A.D. (2003). Quality Characteristics for Software Components: Hierarchy and Quality Guides. In: Cechich, A., Piattini, M., Vallecillo, A. (eds) Component-Based Software Quality. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2693. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45064-1_9

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