Title :
On the Distribution of Software Faults
Author_Institution :
Tsinghua Univ., Beijing
Abstract :
The Pareto principle is often used to describe how faults in large software systems are distributed over modules. A recent paper by Andersson and Runeson again confirmed the Pareto principle of fault distribution. In this paper, we show that the distribution of software faults can be more precisely described as the Weibull distribution.
Keywords :
Pareto analysis; Weibull distribution; Pareto principle; Weibull distribution; large software systems; software faults distribution; Measurement applied to SQA and V&V; Product metrics;
Journal_Title :
Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TSE.2007.70771
