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The document discusses the characteristics of good software. It outlines three key characteristics - operational characteristics, transition characteristics, and revision characteristics. Operational characteristics relate to the exterior quality and functionality of the software like correctness, usability, integrity, reliability, and security. Revision characteristics relate to the interior quality like maintainability, flexibility, extensibility, testability, and modularity. Transition characteristics regard how well the software exchanges information and reuses code like interoperability and portability. The importance of these factors depends on the type of application being developed.

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The document discusses the characteristics of good software. It outlines three key characteristics - operational characteristics, transition characteristics, and revision characteristics. Operational characteristics relate to the exterior quality and functionality of the software like correctness, usability, integrity, reliability, and security. Revision characteristics relate to the interior quality like maintainability, flexibility, extensibility, testability, and modularity. Transition characteristics regard how well the software exchanges information and reuses code like interoperability and portability. The importance of these factors depends on the type of application being developed.

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CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD

SOFTWARE

While developing any kind of software product, the first question in any

developer's mind is, “What are the qualities that good software should have?" Well

before going into technical characteristics, I would like to state the obvious

expectations one has from any software.

First and foremost, a software product must meet all the requirements of the

customer or end-user. Also, the cost of developing and maintaining the software

should be low. The development of software should be completed in the specified

time-frame.

Well these were the obvious things which are expected from any project (and

software development is a project in itself). Now lets take a look at Software

Quality factors. These set of factors can be easily explained by Software Quality

Triangle.

The three characteristics of good application software are :-

1) Operational Characteristics

2) Transition Characteristics

3) Revision Characteristics
Software Quality Triangle

Software Quality Triangle with characteristics

16 Characteristics of a Good Software

What Operational Characteristics should a software have ?

These are functionality based factors and related to 'exterior quality' of software.

Various Operational Characteristics of software are :

a) Correctness: The software which we are making should meet all the

specifications stated by the customer.

b) Usability/Learnability: The amount of efforts or time required to learn how to

use the software should be less. This makes the software user-friendly even for IT-

illiterate people.

c) Integrity : Just like medicines have side-effects, in the same way a software

may have a side-effect i.e. it may affect the working of another application. But a
quality software should not have side effects.

d) Reliability : The software product should not have any defects. Not only this,

it shouldn't fail while execution.

e) Efficiency : This characteristic relates to the way software uses the available

resources. The software should make effective use of the storage space and execute

command as per desired timing requirements.

f) Security : With the increase in security threats nowadays, this factor is gaining

importance. The software shouldn't have ill effects on data / hardware. Proper

measures should be taken to keep data secure from external threats.

g) Safety : The software should not be hazardous to the environment/life.

What are the Revision Characteristics of software ?

These engineering based factors of the relate to 'interior quality' of the software

like efficiency, documentation and structure. These factors should be in-build in

any good software. Various Revision Characteristics of software are :-

a) Maintainability : Maintenance of the software should be easy for any kind of

user.

b) Flexibility : Changes in the software should be easy to make.

c) Extensibility : It should be easy to increase the functions performed by it.

d) Scalability : It should be very easy to upgrade it for more work(or for more

number of users).
e) Testability : Testing the software should be easy.

f) Modularity : Any software is said to made of units and modules which are

independent of each other. These modules are then integrated to make the final

software. If the software is divided into separate independent parts that can be

modified, tested separately, it has high modularity.

Transition Characteristics of the software :

a) Interoperability : Interoperability is the ability of software to exchange

information with other applications and make use of information transparently.

b) Reusability : If we are able to use the software code with some modifications

for different purpose then we call software to be reusable.

c)Portability : The ability of software to perform same functions across all

environments and platforms, demonstrate its portability.

Importance of any of these factors varies from application to application. In

systems where human life is at stake, integrity and reliability factors must be given

prime importance. In any business related application usability and maintainability

are key factors to be considered. Always remember in Software Engineering,

quality of software is everything, therefore try to deliver a product which has all

these characteristics and qualities.

Source: http://www.ianswer4u.com/2011/10/characteristics-of-good-

software.html#axzz3QrxIqkfR

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