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This International Standard provides requirements, recommendations and guidelines for product quality evaluation specifically for developers, acquirers and independent evaluators . This standard is not restricted to any specific application area and can be used for quality evaluation of any type of products. This document provides a process description for evaluating product quality and states the specific requirements for the application of this process from the view point of developer, acquirers and independent evaluators. The evaluation process can be used for different purposes and approaches. The process can be used for the evaluation of the quality of pre-developed software, commercial-offthe shelf software or custom software and can be used during or after the development process. This International Standard is intended for those who are responsible for product evaluation and is appropriate for developers, acquirers and independent evaluators of products. The descriptions in this standard are mainly based on the descriptions in specific standards ISO/IEC 14598-3, -4, and -5, which will be replaced by this standard. This International Standard is not intended for evaluation of other aspects of products (such as functional requirements, process requirements, business requirements etc.).