A framework for designing and implementing the Ada standard container library is described in this paper. The authors start with a short introduction, and then present the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) quality model, mainly using three large tables of criteria. The next section presents the shortcut-based framework, some of its implementation details, and an example of its use. This is followed by an evaluation of the framework; it does not use the ISO model, but rather the goal-question metric. Two new large tables explain the model, with values that do not seem extremely significant: one half is not affected, the other half (but one) is 100 percent. There is also an assessment of efficiency. The paper ends with some conclusions and some references.

I had difficulties understanding the exact purpose of this paper. The text lacked a thorough editing, and typographical errors or imperfections (overflowed or underflowed lines, missing words, and so on) are numerous. I suspect that the published text is the original one, without revision. There is also an overabundance of new terms, which, while customary in the object-oriented (OO) world, makes everything unnecessarily complicated. The use of the ISO/IEC 9126-1 quality standard is described in a way that is either too short (one does not understand the myriad of criteria, subcriteria, sub-subcriteria, and so on) or too long (most of these criteria are no longer mentioned in the sequel).

I hope this description will help some readers to decide that reading this paper will be useful for them, however, I’m not quite sure who they are.