Automating software quality modelling, measurement and assessment

This paper describes the SQUID approach to modelling, measuring, and assessing software quality. SQUID is an ESPRIT III project that has developed a method and an experimental toolset to support and automate these activities. The toolset assists in quality specification, quality planning, quality control and quality evaluation. More specifically, it provides the means to establish targets for the product quality requirements and evaluate their feasibility (quality specification). Then, the toolset supports the identification of the internal software product and process attributes that must be controlled during the development process to fulfil the project quality requirements (quality planning and control). Finally, the toolset helps to assess the fulfilment of the project quality requirements (quality evaluation).