software quality

Software quality measures how well software is designed and how well the software conforms to that design.

• Product quality
• Scalability
• Correctness
• Completeness
• Absence of bugs
• Fault-tolerance
• Extensibility
• Maintainability
• Documentation
• Readability
• Ease of maintenance, testing, debugging, fixing, modification and portability
• Low complexity
• Low resource consumption: memory, CPU
• Number of compilation or lint warnings
• Robust input validation and error handling, established by software fault injection
  

Methods to improve the quality:

• Re-factoring
• Code Inspection or software review
• Documenting code

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