Grupo Alarcos · Conference paper · 2025
Experiences with requirements in an accredited laboratory for software and data quality evaluation
Javier Verdugo Lara, Jesús Ramón Oviedo Lama, Moisés Rodríguez Monje, Mario Piattini Velthuis
AQCLab is a laboratory for software and data quality evaluation in conformance to the ISO/IEC 25000 series of standards. As such, requirements are a fundamental element in the evaluations that are carried out, as they are the input for software Functional Suitability and Data Quality, two of the types of evaluation carried out by the laboratory. Software Maintainability evaluations are also carried out by the laboratory, where the requirements on applicable metrics and thresholds to be met have been established by the laboratory.Furthermore, the laboratory's personnel possess considerable expertise in the domain of auditing software lifecycle processes, which has enabled them to observe how requirements are managed in multiple companies.In this article, we present the experience of AQCLab over the years, in the capacity of software product and data quality evaluators and software development process auditors, with regard to the manner in which our clients manage and define requirements. This has led us to the realization that these practices are often neglected.