An Approach to Software Quality Specification and Evaluation (SPoQE)

The paper discusses how to carry evaluation of software product quality within software development process. The evaluation process bases on a quality model being an instance of a quality model Quality model, elaborated basing on ISO quality standards, may be used both for specification of quality requirements and quality assessment. The evaluation process is presented in terms of activity diagrams. It is generic and may be concretized for two perspectives of software product quality, i.e. external, and internal quality. Simple example illustrates the proposed approach.