1. A method for evaluating the compliance of a software comprising: establishing a standard quality process that includes a plurality of stages, each of the plurality of stages corresponding to a software development process; defining a plurality of objective qualifiers associated with the standard quality process; assigning a weighting factor to each of the plurality of objective qualifiers; applying each of the plurality of objective qualifiers to a software application; and determining a field worthiness score corresponding to the correlation of the software application with each of the objective qualifiers.