Comparative Analysis of Different Software Quality Models

Abstract

Software Quality is increasingly important in today's marketplace. An organization's focus on the strategic importance of software quality depends on whether they are producers or users of software. Software users see software as a tool to be used to support them in the way they do business in their specific sector. Quality is a composition of many characteristics. Because of that, quality is usually captured in a model that depicts the characteristics and their relationships. The models are useful; they show what people think is important when speaking about quality. Different organizations use different quality models based upon the requirements. Different concepts of software quality characteristics are reviewed and discussed in this paper. Also comparative analysis of various software quality models used by various organisations is being discussed in this paper.