The multi-dimension component quality evaluation

Recently, software quality evaluation based on ISO/IEC 9126 and ISO/IEC 14598 has been used widely. However, these standards for software quality don´t provide practical guidelines to apply the quality model and the evaluation process to component based software. This paper presents a multi-dimension quality model and a quantitative quality evaluation model for components and component based software. Particularly, our model provides the weights of quality characteristics and sub-characteristics using analytic hierarchical process technique. We also present the evaluation process using different methods for component developers, reusers and the third party. As a result, we believe that the proposed model will be helpful to evaluate component quality.