A Benchmarking Framework for Domain Specific Software

With the development of the software engineering, finding the "best-in-class" practice of a specific domain software and locating its position is an urgent task. This paper proposes a systematic, practical and simplified benchmarking framework for domain specific software. The methodology is useful to assess characteristics, sub-characteristics and attributes that influence the domain specific software product quality qualitative and quantitative. It is helpful for the business managers and the software designers to obtain the competitiveness analysis results of software. Using the domain specific benchmarking framework, the software designers and the business managers can easily recognize the positive and negative gap of their product and locate its position in the specific domain.