Portability

1. The ease with which a system or component can be transferred from one hardware or software environment to another.

2. A quality metric that can be used to measure the relative effort to transport the software for use in another environment or to convert software for use in another operating environment, hardware configuration, or software system environment.

3. The ease with which a system, component, data, or user can be transferred from one hardware or software environment to another.


Portability

1. The ease with which a system or component can be transferred from one hardware or software environment to another.

2. A quality metric that can be used to measure the relative effort to transport the software for use in another environment or to convert software for use in another operating environment, hardware configuration, or software system environment.

3. The ease with which a system, component, data, or user can be transferred from one hardware or software environment to another.

Used in methodology