This work describes an Engineering Educational Network based on remote labs and proposes a methodology to perform a technical evaluation of this network. The educational network is located in the Maghrebian countries, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. The proposed technical evaluation strategy is build starting from international specific standards as ISO/IEC 25010:2011 and is focused on functional suitability and its three components, functional completeness, functional correctness and functional appropriateness. This work is carried out within the framework of the European Tempus IV project called “eSience” and sixteen partners from seven different countries are involved

This paper presents an evaluation strategy and method which is applied to characterize from a technical point of view a set of remote laboratories. These remote laboratory experiments are set in the Maghrebian countries (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) and serve as teaching materials in engineering education. The technical evaluation strategy is based on guidelines defined by specific standards. According to this standard, the product quality model categorizes product quality properties into eight characteristics (functional suitability, reliability, performance efficiency, usability, security, compatibility, maintainability and portability). Each characteristic is composed of a set of related sub-characteristics. The performed technical evaluation focuses on functional suitability but is only concerned with whether the functions meet stated and implied needs, not the functional specification and does not deal with pedagogical outcomes; these were evaluated by another group of specialists. The main goal of this evaluation is to find and quantify measurable parameters in order to have functional suitability analysis tools.