An Efficient and Effective New Generation Objective Quality Model for Mobile Applications

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Author(s)

Sobia Zahra 1,* Asra Khalid 1 Engr Ali Javed 1

1. Department of Software Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology, Taxila, Pakistan

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmecs.2013.04.05

Received: 26 Dec. 2012 / Revised: 6 Jan. 2013 / Accepted: 20 Feb. 2013 / Published: 8 Apr. 2013

Index Terms

Mobile application, ISO 9126 Quality Model, Key Quality Characteristics, Mobile Application Development, Mobile Application Quality Model

Abstract

Recent proliferation of mobile market has swiftly increased the competition in mobile software market, new technology and new devices are emerging at phenomenal speed. As the number of mobile applications is increasing at daily rate, quality is becoming major issue. So mobile software organization need some quality model as guideline to improve and maintain quality of application under development. Mobile application mainly depends on user response and user acceptance so they need maintainability, usability, suitability etc. This research paper presents mobile application quality model focusing on key quality characteristics mainly extracted from ISO 9126 quality model, which effect quality of mobile applications. Furthermore some responsibilities of QA team in mobile application development are also discussed and lastly focused on the issue of ‘tracking the quality of mobile applications after deployment’.

Cite This Paper

Sobia Zahra, Asra Khalid, Ali Javed, "An Efficient and Effective New Generation Objective Quality Model for Mobile Applications", International Journal of Modern Education and Computer Science (IJMECS), vol.5, no.4, pp.36-42, 2013. DOI:10.5815/ijmecs.2013.04.05

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