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external software quality
subject			fact

external software quality	can be observed by stakeholders
	has a direct impact on stakeholders
	is a subtopic of 1.5 - Software Quality
	is a kind of software quality
software quality	is hard to assess

Kinds of external software quality :

• efficiency (1 kind, 7 facts) - The extent to which a product or process can operate using the fewest possible resources
• maintainability (1 kind, 10 facts) - An important quality of software that measures the extent to which the software can be modified at the lowest possible cost
• reliability (2 kinds, 13 facts) - An important quality of software that measures the frequency of failures, as encountered by testers and end-users
• reusability (1 kind, 6 facts) - A quality that measures of the extent to which a product or process can be used in different contexts from which it was originally designed
• usefulness (2 kinds, 7 facts) - The extent to which a system can be used to perform a task; combines usability and utility^2