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From: todd@stiatl.UUCP (Todd Merriman)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: How is Software Quality Judged?
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Date: 4 Jan 90 19:04:59 GMT
Reply-To: todd@stiatl.UUCP (Todd Merriman)
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What actually measures the quality of software?  "Quality" is an
often-abused word used to describe software developed by software
engineers, but the criteria by which to judge "quality" varies
widely from place to place.  Some of the ways I judge quality
are:

	How well the pieces of a software system are integrated

	How few trouble reports there are

	How efficiently it performs

	How supportable is the code

	How modular is it?  How easy is it to add new modules?

	How intuitive is the user interface?

	How well it satisfies the end-users

	Does it have acceptable functionality?


What are some of the ways you judge the quality of software?

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   Todd Merriman * 404-841-4000 * Atlanta, GA