Improving defect removal effectiveness for software development

Author

Leung, Hareton K N

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput., Hong Kong Univ., Hong Kong

fYear

1998

fDate

8-11 Mar 1998

Firstpage

157

Lastpage

164

Abstract

The paper first reviews the industry statistics on defects, presents a model of defect removal, then develops the relationships between the defect removal effectiveness of different defect removal phases. The defect removal effectiveness of an average organization is determined based on published data. Combining the industry data with the defect removal model, insights into improvement of the defect removal process can be gained. It is determined that the defect removal effectiveness of individual phases cannot be higher than that of the overall development process. Also, introducing inspection to the software development process will certainly allow an average organization to achieve higher defect removal effectiveness

Keywords

program debugging; program testing; program verification; defect removal model; industry data; industry statistics; inspection; organization; program defect removal effectiveness; program testing; program verification; software development; software process improvement; Computer industry; Coordinate measuring machines; Electrical capacitance tomography; Inspection; Programming; Quality management; Software quality; Software testing; Statistics; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 1998. Proceedings of the Second Euromicro Conference on

Conference_Location

Florence

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8421-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSMR.1998.665789

Filename

665789