This IEEE Standards product is part of the family on Software Engineering. A methodology for establishing quality requirements and identifying, implementing, analyzing, and validating the process and product software quality metrics is defined. The methodology spans the entire software life cycle.

Methodology for establishing quality requirements and identifying, implementing, analyzing, and validating software quality metrics.

To clarify the use of terminology in the document; incorporate lessons learned since publication from workshops, teaching classes based on the document, and field experience of users, and clarify relationships with related international standards.