On the Technical Quality Evaluation of Rapid Application Development Software Products in a Visual Environment

Laura Silvia Vargas-Perez, Agustin Francisco Gutierrez-Tornes, Edgardo Manuel Felipe-Riveron, Ines Zambrano-Davila, Ricardo Pena-Galeana

This paper presents a model for the technical quality evaluation of Rapid Application Development (RAD) software products in a visual environment. It addresses organizations, companies and final users that need to select in an effective and easy way the most appropriate software to develop their applications amongst those in the market. It also gives a guideline for the concrete instrumentation of the model features, such as ranking procedures. Finally, it discusses the results of the evaluation of three of these tools.