Our colleagues Javier Verdugo, Jesús Oviedo, Moisés Rodríguez and Mario Piattini have published the article Connecting research and practice for software product quality evaluation and certification: a software laboratory's 25-year journey in the Volume: 41 Issue: 3 May-June-2024 of the IEEE Software journal, in which they present the trajectory of AQCLab, a laboratory for software quality evaluation, over 25 years, starting from the research work of the Alarcos Research Group.

The article details the challenges and difficulties involved in establishing the first accredited laboratory for software quality assessment based on the ISO/IEC 25000 family of international standards. Thus, AQCLab has meant the transfer of the research on software quality carried out over the years to the industry, allowing organisations that develop or acquire software to evaluate their products, and even obtain a certificate based on the results of these laboratory evaluations.

In addition to the challenges and lessons learned during this journey in software product evaluation and certification, the article provides details on the quality models used in the laboratory for the evaluation of Maintainability and Functional Suitability.