publications:
- title: "A survey-based study of the mapping of system properties to ISO/IEC 9126 maintainability characteristics"
  author:
  - name: "José Pedro Correia"
    link: "http://www.sig.eu"
  - name: "Yiannis Kanellopoulos"
    link: "http://www.sig.eu"
  - name: "Joost Visser"
    link: "http://www.di.uminho.pt/~joost.visser/"
  year: "2009"
  doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2009.5306346"
  abstract: "The ISO/IEC 9126 international standard for software product quality is a widely accepted reference for terminology regarding the multi-faceted concept of software product quality. Based on this standard, the Software Improvement Group has developed a pragmatic approach for measuring technical quality of software products. This quality model introduces another level below the hierarchy defined by ISO/IEC 9126, which consists of system properties such as volume, duplication, unit complexity and others. A mapping between system properties and ISO/IEC 9126 characteristics is defined in a binary fashion: a property either influences a characteristic or not. This mapping embodies consensus among three experts based, in an informal way, on their experience in software quality assessment. We have conducted a survey-based experiment to study the mapping between system properties and quality characteristics. We used the Analytic Hierarchy Process as a formally structured method to elicit the relative importance of system properties and quality characteristics from a group of 22 software quality experts. We analyzed the results of the experiment with two objectives: (i) to validate the original binary mapping and (ii) to refine the mapping using the elicited relative weights."
  links:
    doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2009.5306346"
  tags:
  - "rule-based"
  - "meta-model"
  - "software product quality"
  - "survey"
  - "ISO/IEC 9126"
  - "Meta-Environment"
  - "process modeling"
  - "systematic-approach"
  - "AHP"
  researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/CorreiaKV09"
  cites: 0
  citedby: 0
  pages: "61-70"
  booktitle: "25th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2009), September 20-26, 2009, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada"
  publisher: "IEEE"
  kind: "inproceedings"
  key: "CorreiaKV09"