Web Services based Measurement for IT Quality Assurance

Concern for quality assurance in information technology is growing with every passing day. Software measurement encompasses all aspects of IT including product, process and resources and provides us adequate quantitative means for assessing various artifacts involved in information technology. Service-oriented architecture provides flexibility, reliability and scalability and is gaining tremendous potential. Conventional hard-wired software measurement and analysis tools are expensive and limited in functionality and ease of use. This situation can be improved by software measurement web services which can provide us an easy and flexible approach towards measurement-based quality evaluation of software products. We present the idea of service-oriented approach for IT quality assurance and introduce a software measurement web service for evaluating and analyzing software products. We apply our approach, using our web service as a case study, to evaluate and analyze Java software products and libraries thereby highlighting their various quality aspects.