Comparing Software Quality Models: An Overview

Abstract

Software quality models are well-accepted means to
support quality management of software systems. Over the last
years many quality models are proposed and applied with
varying aspects. But quality models are still criticized because of
yet to be solved issue of little practical adoption of these models.
It is defined and discussed in literature that “what are quality
models?†but the key point is “how can quality models be
adopted in practice?†Software quality models are used to
determine the functionality, quality attributes, internal and
external characteristics of the system. This paper aims to give
the overview of software quality model by answering questions
like what are these quality models?, how these can be
implemented? and , how these software quality models can be
compared? It also highlights the issues and proposed techniques,
models and approaches of these models that are identified from
literature survey.