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Functionality, usability, reliability, performance and supportability are together referred to as FURPS in relation to software requirements. Agility in working software is an aggregation of seven architecturally sensitive attributes: debuggability, extensibility, portability, scalability, securability, testability and understandability.
Reliability, availability and serviceability. Reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS), also known as reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM), is a computer hardware engineering term involving reliability engineering, high availability, and serviceability design. The phrase was originally used by IBM as a term to describe ...
The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is a development model created in 1986 after a study of data collected from organizations that contracted with the U.S. Department of Defense, who funded the research. The term "maturity" relates to the degree of formality and optimization of processes, from ad hoc practices, to formally defined steps, to ...
In the context of software engineering, software quality refers to two related but distinct notions: [citation needed] Software's functional quality reflects how well it complies with or conforms to a given design, based on functional requirements or specifications. [1] That attribute can also be described as the fitness for the purpose of a ...
Software quality assurance. Software quality assurance (SQA) is a means and practice of monitoring all software engineering processes, methods, and work products to ensure compliance against defined standards. [1] It may include ensuring conformance to standards or models, such as ISO/IEC 9126 (now superseded by ISO 25010), SPICE or CMMI.
Coupling (computer programming) In software engineering, coupling is the degree of interdependence between software modules; a measure of how closely connected two routines or modules are; [1] the strength of the relationships between modules. [2] Coupling is not binary but it is multi-dimensional. [3] Coupling is usually contrasted with cohesion.
Software maintenance is the modification of software after delivery. [1]As per the IEEE standard glossary of software engineering terminology, software maintenance refers to the process of modifying and updating software after its initial development and deployment, to correct faults, improve performance or other attributes, add new features to meet evolving user requirements, or adapt to a ...
GQM defines a measurement model on three levels: [7] 1. Conceptual level (Goal) A goal is defined for an object, for a variety of reasons, with respect to various models of quality, from various points of view and relative to a particular environment. 2. Operational level (Question)