9126 at Work Overview

Quality characteristics apply to the development process as well as to product evaluation. Although the six characteristics of ISO 9126 cover all properties of a software product, these high-level abstract views have not the same importance or priority for each type of software. The required quality characteristics will be different between banking software and embedded space software.

While the software characteristics describe the WHAT, it is also necessary to describe HOW to measure these characteristics. The SCOPE project has defined evaluation levels by means of relevant evaluation techniques. The new project SPACE-UFO will provide an enhanced user-oriented method for IT product quality requirements specification.