Product Standards

While a mature software process is essential to software quality, the resulting software product must also be measured in order to ensure its performance and its ability to meet the acquirer requirements.

The general objectives of software product standards are:

• to define software quality model through a coherent set of software product quality characteristics,
• to provide a reference for common definition of software product measures that characterize the product itself,
• to establish a framework for the evaluation of software products.

Software product standards define general quality models for the software products or specific characteristics to be considered while developing or evaluating software.

The following is a list of the most widely recognized standards related to software product quality:

	ISO/IEC 9126	Software quality characteristics and metrics
	ISO/IEC 14598	Software product evaluation
	ISO/IEC DIS 14143	Functional size measurement
	ISO/CD 14756	Measurement and rating of performance of computer based software systems
	ISO/IEC 14102	Guideline for the evaluation and selection of CASE tools
	ISO 9127	User documentation and cover information for consumer software packages
	ISO/IEC 12119	Software packages - Quality requirements and testing
	ITSEC	Information technology security evaluation criteria
	ISO 9241	Ergonomic requirements for office work with visual display terminals
	IEEE Std.830	Software requirements specifications

Other software related standards

	IEC 1508	Functional safety - Safety related systems (Part 3: Software requirements)
	ISO/IEC DIS 15026	Systems and software integrity levels
	IEEE Std 1044	Classification for software anomalies