SOFTWARE SUITABILITY TESTING SYSTEM

A software suitability testing system (Fig. 2) using a software product line engineering approach for analyzing and testing commercial, off-the-shelf software products (202) to determine the software product's capabilities (204). A software product is evaluated and tested against a predefined set of criteria requirements (208), and the results are published on the World Wide Web. The test results are made available to customers such that the capabilities of a particular software product (214) are readily available to the users (216) and that competing software products can be compared. A software suitability testing system using a software product line engineering approach for analyzing and testing commercial, off-the-shelf software products to determine the software product's capabilities. A software product is evaluated and tested against a predefined set of criteria requirements, and the results are published on the World Wide Web. The test results are made available to customers such that the capabilities of a particular software product are readily available to the users and that competing software products can be compared. La présente invention concerne un système de vérification de pertinence de logiciels évaluant par une approche d'ingénierie de ligne de produits logiciels les possibilités d'un progiciel. Il s'agit en l'occurrence d'analyser et de tester des produits logiciels du commerce, disponibles. L'évaluation et le test du progiciel se basent sur un ensemble défini de critères. Publiés sur l'Internet, les résultats des tests proposés aux clients leur permettent de prendre connaissance facilement des possibilités du logiciel considéré et de le comparer à des produits de la concurrence.