4. ISO/IEC 14598 standard

4.1 Context

In fact, this is a set of standards published by AFNOR between April 1999 and June 2009 under the title "Software engineering – Software product evaluation". These documents are intended to define the methodological approach for evaluating a software product with regard to the model of characteristics and sub-characteristics defined in ISO/IEC 9126.

All these documents have the status of international standards. They are available in English only.

Figure 3 shows the relationship between the quality model for a software product defined in ISO/IEC 9126 and the assessment of this software product defined...