Title :
Developing a usage-based software certification process
Author_Institution :
Reliable Software Technol., USA
fDate :
8/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The author proposes an alternative to process-based methods of assuring software quality: a certification process that will provide product-based and trustworthy quality guarantees for commercial software packages. I call the agencies that perform such certification “software certification laboratories” (SCLs). The beauty of establishing independent SCLs is that they provide a fair playing field for each publisher, assuming that each product under review receives equal treatment
Keywords :
certification; software packages; software quality; commercial software packages; software certification laboratories; software quality assurance; trustworthy product-based quality guarantees; usage-based software certification process; Application software; Certification; ISO standards; Quality management; Software quality; Software standards; Software systems; Software testing; Standards development; Warranties;
