Software Quality Assessment Laboratory
First Software Quality Assessment Laboratory in Spain created by a Spin-off of Informática
On September 25, 2013, AENOR (Spanish Association for Standardization and Certification) granted the first Software Product Quality certificates in accordance with the international standard ISO/IEC 25000 for Software Engineering. Quality requirements and evaluation of the software product, also known as Square (Software Product Quality Requirements and Evaluation).
Thus, AENOR has certified that companies Enxenium, sicaman y Bitware they comply with the requirements of the standard in the maintainability of their software products, that is, the degree to which a product facilitates its maintenance in an effective, efficient, safe and satisfactory way, allowing updates.
To carry out the quality certification of the software product, AENOR has had the collaboration of the laboratory AQC-Lab, the first center in Spain accredited by ENAC to carry out tests to assess the quality of software applications. This laboratory issues an independent evaluation report through which it checks the level with which the software can be maintained for possible improvements, corrections or adaptations of the same to changes in the requirements or in the environment.
In the case of Enxenio, AENOR has certified the maintainability of the 'Digital Content Distribution Platform version 2.1' software; in the case of Sicaman, the Entity has certified the software 'Appointment system for Citasalud health centres, version 3.0'; and in the case of Bitware, it has certified the product 'BITDOC document management version 2'. The delivery of the certificates took place in a ceremony held at the AENOR headquarters.
The Software Product Quality certification has numerous advantages, both for organizations that develop software and for companies that acquire it:
- Differentiate yourself from competitors, ensuring delivery times and reducing product failures after its implementation in production.
- Being able to establish service level agreements, defining certain quality parameters that the product must meet before being delivered.
- Detect defects in the software product and proceed to its elimination before delivery, which means cost savings in the subsequent maintenance phase.
- Evaluate and control the performance of the developed software product, ensuring that it will be able to generate the results taking into account the established time and resource restrictions.
