The squale model - A practice-based industrial quality model

ISO 9126 promotes a three-level model of quality (factors, criteria, and metrics) which allows one to assess quality at the top level of factors and criteria. However, it is difficult to use this model as a tool to increase software quality. In the Squale model, we add practices as an intermediate tween metrics and criteria. Practices abstract away from raw information (metrics, tool reports, audits) and provide technical guidelines to respect. Moreover, practice marks are adjusted using formulae to suit company development habits or exigences: for example bad marks are stressed to point to places which need most of the attention. The Squale model has been developed and validated over the last couple of years in an industrial setting with Air France-KML and PSA Peugeot-Citroën.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICSM
• Authors: Karine Mordal-Manet, Francoise Balmas, Simon Denier, Stéphane Ducasse, Harald Wertz, Jannik Laval, Fabrice Bellingard, Philippe Vaillergues
• Keywords: ICSM 2009, Intermediate Tween Metrics, Software Engineering, Squale Model, Three-level Model