What is it ? A Bug Tracking System: is a software application that is designed to help quality assurance and programmers keeping track of reported software bugs in their work. It may be regarded as a sort of issue tracking system.Many bug-tracking systems, such as those used by most open source software projects, allow users to enter bug reports directly. Other systems are used only internally... [read more]

Quality Control Quality Assurance The process by which product quality is compared with applicable standards; and the action taken when nonconformance is detected. A planned and systematic set of activities necessary to provide adequate confidence that requirements are properly established and products or... [read more]

ISO 9126 is an international standard for the evaluation of software quality. The standard is divided into four parts, which address, respectively, the following subjects: quality model; external metrics; internal metrics; and quality in use metrics. Quality Model The quality model established in the first part of the standard, ISO 9126-1, classifies software quality in a structured set... [read more]