scope:

This International Standard provides requirements and recommendations for an organization responsible for implementing and managing the software product quality requirements specification and software quality evaluation activities through the provision of technology, tools, experiences and management skills.

The role of the evaluation group includes motivating people and training them for the requirements specification activities and the evaluation activities, preparing appropriate documents, identification or development of required methods, and responding to queries on relevant technologies.

Technology management is related to the planning and management of a software quality requirements specification and evaluation process, measures and tools. This includes the management of development, acquisition, standardization, control, transfer and feedback of requirements specification and evaluation technology experiences within the organisation.

The intended users of ISO/IEC 25001 are those responsible for:

- managing technologies used for requirements specification and evaluation execution,

- specifying software product quality requirements,

- supporting software product quality evaluation,

- managing software development organisations,

as well as those in a quality assurance function. It is also applicable to managers involved in other software related activities.