BS ISO/IEC 14598-5:1998

Foreword
      Introduction
1 Scope
2 Conformance
3 Normative references
4 Definitions
5 Evaluation Concepts
      5.1 General aspects
      5.2 Evaluation starting point
             5.2.1 Initial agreement
             5.2.2 Parties involved in the evaluation
      5.3 Characteristics of the evaluation process
      5.4 Evaluation process
             5.4.1 Evaluation activities
             5.4.2 Input to the evaluation process
             5.4.3 Output of the evaluation process
      5.5 Relations between evaluation and life-cycle
6 Evaluation process requirements
      6.1 General requirements
             6.1.1 Organisation and quality system
             6.1.2 Requester's responsibilities
             6.1.3 Evaluator's responsibilities
      6.2 Establishment of evaluation requirements
             6.2.1 Purpose of the establishment of
                      evaluation requirements
             6.2.2 Elaboration of the evaluation
                      requirements
             6.2.3 Contents of the evaluation
                      requirements
             6.2.4 Approbation and reporting
      6.3 Specification of the evaluation
             6.3.1 Purpose of the specification of the
                      evaluation
             6.3.2 Elaboration of the evaluation
                      specification
             6.3.3 Contents of the evaluation
                      specification
             6.3.4 Approbation and reporting
      6.4 Design of the evaluation
             6.4.1 Purpose of designing the evaluation
             6.4.2 Elaboration of the evaluation plan
             6.4.3 Contents of the evaluation plan
             6.4.4 Approbation and reporting
      6.5 Execution of the evaluation
             6.5.1 Purpose of the evaluation execution
             6.5.2 Performing the evaluator actions
             6.5.3 Reviewing and reporting
      6.6 Conclusion of the evaluation
             6.6.1 Purpose of the evaluation conclusion
             6.6.2 Joint review of the evaluation report
             6.6.3 Disposition of evaluation data and
                      documents
Annex A (normative) Template evaluation report
Annex B (informative) Levels of evaluation
Annex C (informative) Software product components
Annex D (informative) Interactions between requester and
                      evaluator
Annex E (informative) Evaluation contract
Annex F (informative) Bibliography

Gives recommendations and requirements for practical implementation for evaluating software products when several groups need to accept, trust and understand results. It can be used for applying concepts as detailed in ISO/IEC 9126. This process specifies activities required to analyse evaluation requirements, to design, specify and perform actions and conclude evaluation of any type of software product. Can be used to evaluate existing products, if the components are available. Users may be software suppliers, acquirers, users, testing laboratory evaluators and certification bodies.