Source code scanners in software quality management and connections to international standards

Abstract. This paper deals with software quality by analyzing how source code scanners in quality management are connected to international product quality standards. The article has three parts: the authors (1) provide a short overview of software quality management,
(2) examine to what extent can quality metrics of the static source code scanners PMD and FxCop be classified into the attribute sets of ISO/IEC 9126 and ISO/IEC 25010 quality models, (3) investigate the quality road from the code to the product via the ISO/IEC 25010 quality model.