Quality is something which is hard to define. Different areas of expertise use their own definitions of what quality is. Without an objective standard which carries weight, anyone can claim to provide a quality product or service according to some standard. This makes it difficult to compare products and to formalize which characteristics a product or service needs to have. In this blog post I'll provide an introduction to ISO/IEC-5055 which is a quality standard which allows us to measure the quality of source code objectively.
