IS 16443 : 2024/ISO/IEC 25010 : 2023 Systems and Software Engineering - Systems and Software Quality Requirements and Evaluation (Square) - Product Quality Model
NATIONAL FOREWORD
This Indian Standard (First Revision) which is identical to ISO/IEC 25010 : 2023 'Systems and Software Engineering - Systems and Software Quality Requirements and Evaluation (SQuaRE) - Product quality model' issued by International Organization for Standardization and International Electrotechnical Commission jointly was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Software And System Engineering Sectional Committee, and the approval of the Electronics and Information Technology Division Council.
This standard was originally published in 2016 and was identical to ISO/IEC 25010 : 2011. The first revision of this standard aligns this Indian Standard with ISO/IEC 25010 : 2023.
The main changes are as follows:
a) This document revises the product quality model part of ISO/IEC 25010 : 2011. The other parts are moved to ISO/IEC 25002 on quality models overview and usage and ISO/IEC 25019 on quality-in-use model. The quality characteristics and subcharacteristics of the product quality model are revised for the purpose of better understanding and fitting the state of the art of ICT (information and communication technology);
b) The target of the product quality model has been extended to include various types of ICT product and information system;
c) Safety has been added as a quality characteristic with subcharacteristics, i.e. operational constraint, risk identification, fail safe, hazard warning and safe integration;
d) Usability and portability have been replaced with interaction capability and flexibility respectively;
e) Inclusivity and self-descriptiveness, resistance, and scalability have been added as subcharacteristics of interaction capability, security, and flexibility respectively;
f) User interface aesthetics and maturity have been replaced with user engagement and faultlessness respectively;
g) Accessibility has been split into inclusivity and user assistance; and
h) Several characteristics and subcharacteristics have been given more accurate names and definitions.
The text of ISO/IEC standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions are however not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:
a) Wherever the words 'International Standard' appears referring to this standard, they should be read as 'Indian Standard'; and
b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current Practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.