Economic and Social Condition of the Software Quality Assessment

Abstract

Issue of the computer software quality has an interdisciplinary nature and it is a subject of research in numerous scientific disciplines, including the software engineering, economics, psychology and ergonomics. Considerations concerning the integration of the subjective factors with the technical parameters in respect of the computer software quality testing are not present in the literature1. Therefore, this Article comprised the results of research on the software quality assessments made by users. This Article includes four parts, which represent: the research methods, the economic conditions connected with the computer software quality assessment, the social conditions and the Summary. The first part of the Article discusses the method of correspondence as well as the typology of the economic and social working conditions that were used to create the correlation model for the computer software assessment. In the second part of the Article the authors discussed the economic conditions for computer software assessment that were qualified to one of the three groups: variables that describe: organizational and technical situation, self assessment of the employee's position in the company and the evaluation of the employment security. Further part of this Article is dedicated to correlation between the social issues and the computer software quality assessment. The four variables: sight affections, monotony of work, work intensiveness as well as the psychophysical affections were classified under a single group titled Employee Health Hazards. This Article is concluded with Summary, where the authors indicated the essentiality of economic and social issues in the computer software quality assessment.