Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(3):138-146 | DOI: 10.17221/5007-AGRICECON

Software and data quality

J. Vaníček
Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic

The paper presents new ideas in the International SQuaRE (Software Quality Requirements and Evaluation) standardisation research project, which concerns the development of a special branch of international standards for software quality. Data can be considered as an integral part of software. The current international standard and technical report of the ISO/IEC 9126, ISO/IEC 14598 series and ISO/IEC 12119 standard covert the whole software as an indivisible entity. However, such data sets as databases and data stores have a special character and need a different structure of quality characteristic. Therefore it was decided in the SQuaRE project create a special international standard for data quality. The main idea for this standard and the critical discussion of these ideas is presented in this paper. The main part of this contribution was presented on the conference Agricultural Perspectives XIV, aligned by Czech University of Agriculture in Prague, September 20 to 21, 2005.

Keywords: software quality; data quality; international standardization; project SQuaRE

Published: March 31, 2006  Show citation

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Vaníček J. Software and data quality. Agric. Econ. - Czech. 2006;52(3):138-146. doi: 10.17221/5007-AGRICECON.
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