Fuzzy logic based quantification of software quality factors for mobile applications

Abstract

Quality of any product always is an asset for any organization. The implicit nature of the quality is subjective or qualitative. The answer of the question pertinent to any product how is the product? always comes up with it is good or it is not up to the mark and many other responses may be received as an answer to the above question. Quality of a software product is also subjective or qualitative in nature. Thus the question is how can exactly the quality of software as a product be measured? The answer to this question can be given only after performing the quantitative assessment. Thus, there is a requirement of particular kind of a framework which converts qualitative aspects of software product in to quantitative one, based on software quality factors (SQF) to obtain overall quality numerically. newline newlineA software development organization includes entities such as stakeholders, investors, quality managers, SQA team, developer, tester and and#946;-Users with their different roles, but collectively, goal of all of them is to develop a quality software product. Broadly all entities may be divided in to four distinct categories (1) decision makers includes stakeholders, investors, quality managers (2) developer, (3) tester and (4) and#946;-Users. newline newlineThe proposed research focused upon quantifying the overall quality of a mobile application as a software product during its development. For this a fuzzy based mathematical framework is proposed which include software quality factors as per the domain of the mobile application by considering its limitations and quantify them using two inputs: fuzzy rate and fuzzy weight. newline newlineMobile application has its own limitations as compare to desktop application. There are additional quality aspects in mobile application such as customization, data-availability and test for mobility, which are considered in proposed study. Three different perspectives of mobile application are taken in the proposed research work: (a) Developer (b) Tester and (c) and#946;-User.