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The first part of this paper gives an overview of some theoretical issues in software quality: quality models and different approaches to evaluating quality. The second part presents a questionnaire based investigation, concerning both the hypothesis that different software types will have specific profiles of quality attributes and current practice relating to quality attributes, their assurance and their measurement. While failing to confirm the hypothesis the questionnaire allows some interesting observations to be made in relation to the theoretical issues discussed earlier.
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Musson, T., Dodman, E. (1995). An Investigation of Desired Quality Attributes for Different Types of Software. In: Lee, M., Barta, BZ., Juliff, P. (eds) Software Quality and Productivity. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34848-3_29
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