scholarly journals Ontology Software Quality Model for Fuzzy Logic Evaluation Approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 637-641 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madjid Kara ◽  
Olfa Lamouchi ◽  
Amar Ramdane-Cherif

Software reusability facilitates the engineering of new software or systems functionalities without having to start coding from scratch. This software quality provides numerous merits to the software developers including coming up with larger systems within a short time, with reduced development cost and reduced developer effort. However, software reusability is an external software quality attribute that is not measurable directly, and this is a major hindrance factor to its adoption in the software engineering process. This indicates that there is a need to come up with an approach to measure or predict software reusability to give advisories to the software developers on the prediction of software reusability. Therefore, this study aims at coming up with a prediction model to estimate software reusability by employing the use of a fuzzy logic approach, the study focused on Object-Oriented software. The research followed a guideline of four objectives and assumed descriptive and diagnostic methodology. It started by considering the existing ISO/IEC 25010 software quality model to determine and describe the main factors affecting the reusability of Object-Oriented software. The main factors identified were Abstraction, Cohesion and Coupling, thereafter, it was followed by the definition of metrics to measure each of the three factors identified, to operationalize these metrics, they were then validated using Weyuker’s nine properties. After this, the researchers developed a metrics tool to automate the process of computing the metrics values of the defined metrics. Finally, a fuzzy logic prediction model that predicts the reusability of Object-Oriented software was developed based on the metrics values computed by the metrics tool. This model was then validated using the Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) framework. The outcome of the four objectives was presented, discussed and future works of this study outlines. This research work is a contribution to the software development industry where the software developers can apply it to engineer reusable software.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 59-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara Madjid ◽  
Olfa Lamouchi ◽  
Manolo Dulva Hina ◽  
Amar Ramdane-Cherif

The Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) domain aims to support the daily life activities of elders, patients with chronic conditions, and disabled people. Several AAL platforms have been developed over the last two decades. Hence, there is a need to identify Quality Criteria (QC) and make it well defined in order to achieve the AAL system purposes. To be able to convince all stakeholders including both technologies and end users of AAL systems, high quality must be guaranteed. The goal of this article is to obtain a set of data quality characteristics that would be applicable to AAL system, and have its performance evaluated using sensors' data. To this end, this work uses the ISO/IEC 25012 and ISO/IEC 25010 standards to extract the most relevant criteria that are apt for AAL systems. As a result, an evaluation approach on an indoor localization platform was made, and an evaluation procedure has been established. This is done by first generating a hierarchical data quality model, and have it evaluated using the metrics, based on the sensors data and the concept of fuzzy logic.


2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
MARA HAJDU-MACELARU ◽  
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IOANA ZELINA ◽  

Just about everything changes, and so should a software quality model in order to provide a better understanding of quality for any software product to which is applied. But how can we develop such a software quality model? A software quality model pattern that can be adapted to different software products, and provide an accurate evaluation of the overall software quality. This paper presents an adaptable software quality model which is intended to be used for the quality evaluation of different software products.


Author(s):  
Kelvin Kabeti Omieno

The enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is a complex and comprehensive software that integrates various enterprise functions and resources. Although ERP systems have been depicted as a solution in many organizations, there are many negative reports on ERP success, benefits, and effect on user performance. Previous research noted that there is a lack of knowledge and awareness of ERP systems and their overall value to ERP organizations. ERP systems have been widely studied during the past decade; yet they often fail to deliver the intended benefits originally expected. One notable reason for their failures is the lack of understanding in user requirements. There are many studies conducted to propose software quality models with their quality characteristics. However, there is currently no dedicated software quality model that can describe usability maturity and involve new features of ERP systems. This chapter proposes a framework for evaluating the usability maturity as a quality attribute of ERP systems.


Author(s):  
Mohamed A Sheriff ◽  
Elli Georgiadou

The ultimate object of software development should be to deliver value to all stakeholders. The traditional approach to delivering this value is to ensure that the software developed is of the highest quality. A number of quality models have been proposed to specify or describe what constitutes high quality software. The ISO9126 is one such model and perhaps the most comprehensive. Similarly, there are several methods, frameworks and guidelines for ensuring software quality in either the development or use process or both. Software Quality Management and Risk Management are probably the two most popular methods employed by developers during software development and implementation to deliver quality. In this paper the authors examine whether, and to what extent, the implied value propositions of software products as portrayed by the ISO9126 quality model and the prescribed processes in Software Quality Management and Risk Management, map onto user value perceptions and experiences. An ontology of value, in the form of a value tree, is developed and used to identify and analyse the key value dimensions of the ISO9126 quality model and the Software Quality Management and Risk Management process methods. These are then mapped onto contextualised user value characterisations derived from the extant literature. Differences identified are analysed and discussed and the authors suggest approaches that could narrow the perennial gap between idealised quality product and process models and stakeholder perceptions and actualisations of software value.


Author(s):  
Sudhaman Parthasarathy ◽  
C. Sridharan ◽  
Thangavel Chandrakumar ◽  
S. Sridevi

Software quality is a very important aspect in evolving strategy for IT vendors involved in commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) (also referred as packaged software) product development. Software metrics are widely accepted measures for monitoring and managing the quality in software projects. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are COTS products and attempt to integrate data and processes in organizations and often require extensive customization. Using software quality metrics already established in literature, software quality attributes defined by the quality model ISO/IEC 9126 were evaluated for a standard and a customized ERP product. This will help the ERP team to identify the specific quality attributes that were affected owing to customization. This research study infers that there exists a considerable impact of ERP system customization over the quality of ERP product. The implications of the findings for both practice and research are discussed, and possible areas of future research are identified.


2012 ◽  
Vol 157-158 ◽  
pp. 680-683
Author(s):  
Hwa Young Jeong ◽  
Yoon Ho Kim

This research aims to make a quality model for embedded system to consider special environment such as the development of adaptation with each system unit, work of interface between the units, and so on. For this process, we extract the attributes to fit on embedded system from DeLone and McLean’s IS model. Their model is not for embedded system but for information system. Therefore we delete and insert some attributes to correspond embedded system functions from their model. The proposed model has three qualities; system quality, information quality and operation quality in system design part, and we make the quality model to consider the relation of influence with each other.


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