Software quality evaluation and assurance: analysis, tendencies, problems

The authors have analyzed the impact of the software quality for work of complex hardware-software systems, the software quality standards, the models, methods and tools of software quality evaluation. The analysis provides to discover an important tendency - the need of software quality evaluation and prediction at the early stages of the life cycle. The authors have proved the subjective dependence and artificial adaptable of used concepts and the lack of mathematical models, theory and methodology in the area of software quality evaluation and assurance.