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Definitions of product and system quality in the industry standards
by Artem Filimonov, aafilimonov_5@edu.hse.ru
Introduction
Quality plays a key role in the demand for a product in the market. People prefer products which price matches the quality. Therefore, manufacturers should pay great attention for quality assurance of the products. This additionally applies to developers who aspire to create products of high demand. To ensure quality in the production process are used quality requirements that are written in various industry standards. This topic will consider aspects of the quality of information systems and software. In order of creating high-quality software developers should perform some actions that ensure quality. There is a wide choice of tools and techniques that ensure quality management. Most of them are described in international or national standards. ISO, IEEE, IEC are organizations that are responsible for development and publication of international standards. In a large amount of standards there are some dedicated to system and software quality requirements. In IEEE software life cycle such section is named Software quality assurance (SQA). The process of quality assurance can be ensured in conformance to the ISO/IEC 25000 series of standards, which is called SQuaRE (System and Software Quality Requirements and Evaluation). SQuaRE includes the latest versions of quality standards and consists of 5 divisions: Quality Management, Quality Model, Quality Measurement, Quality Requirements, Quality Evaluation.