2006, Al-Qutaish, R. E. and Al-Fawareh, H. J., Mapping Between ISO 9126 on Software Product Quality Metrics and ISO 12207 on Software Life Cycle Processes.

Nowadays, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is working on the next generation of the software product quality standards which will be referred to as Software Product Quality Requirements and Evaluation (SQuaRE – ISO 25000 series). However, this series of standards will replace the current version of ISO 9126 International Standard which consists of inventories of proposed metrics to measure the quality of the internal, external, and in-use software product. For each of these metrics there is a cross-reference on where they could be applied (measured) during the ISO 12207 Software Life Cycle Processes and activities (SLCP). This paper provides a mapping between those two standards to highlights the weaknesses of these cross-references and proposes a number of suggestions to address them.