Provides requirements and recommendations for the practical implementation of software product evaluation when several parties need to understand, accept and trust evaluation results. Defines the activities needed to analyse evaluation requirements, to specify, design and perform evaluation actions and to conclude the evaluation of any kind of software product. The evaluation process may be used to evaluate already existing products, provided the needed product components are available, or to evaluate products in development. May be used by testing laboratory evaluators, software suppliers, software acquirers, software users when evaluating products and certification bodies.