Answer to Question #176338 in Software Engineering for Poonam Adhikari

Question

Modifiability comes in many flavors and is known by many names. Find one of the IEEE or ISO standards dealing with quality attributes and compile a list of quality attributes that refer to some form of modifiability. Discuss the differences.

Answer 1

Modifiability: It is the degree of the easiness at which the changes can be made in the system and the flexibility which which the system adapt the changes.

ISO standards dealing with quality attributes:

The ISO software quality models have the 6 attributes which are listed below-

• Functionality
• Usability
• Reliability
• Efficiency
• Maintainability
• Portability

Maintainability for ISO quality standards:

It includes in ISO /IEC 25000-

It represents the degree of effectiveness and efficiency at which the product can be modified or the product can be improve. It have the following characteristics-

1. Modularity
2. Reusablity
3. Analysiablity
4. Modifiability
5. Testablity