Software Quality Appraisal Using Multi-Criteria Decision Approach

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Sanjay Kumar Dubey 1,* Disha Sharma 1

1. Amity University/ CSE Dept., Noida, India

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijieeb.2015.02.02

Received: 2 Dec. 2014 / Revised: 11 Jan. 2015 / Accepted: 13 Feb. 2015 / Published: 8 Mar. 2015

Index Terms

Software Quality Attributes, ISO/IEC 9216, Fuzzy Multi Criteria Approach, Software Quality Evaluation, Fuzzy Membership Function

Abstract

Software quality measurement is the key factor in the development of any software system. Various software quality models are devised to measure the performance of a software system, which consists of numerous quality parameters on the basis of which software are quantified. Different types of software quality models are already present like an ISO/IEC9126 Quality model, Boehm's model, McCall's model, etc. In this paper, an attempt has been made to increase the quality of a software system by introducing some new quality parameters in ISO/IEC9126 model. Since the quality parameters are very unpredictable in nature, so as to evaluate the performance of quality parameters, the fuzzy multi criteria approach has been used.

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Sanjay Kumar Dubey, Disha Sharma, "Software Quality Appraisal Using Multi-Criteria Decision Approach", International Journal of Information Engineering and Electronic Business(IJIEEB), vol.7, no.2, pp.8-13, 2015. DOI:10.5815/ijieeb.2015.02.02

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