Defect content estimations from review data

Author

Wohlin, Claes ; Runeson, Per

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun. Syst., Lund Univ., Sweden

fYear

1998

fDate

19-25 Apr 1998

Firstpage

400

Lastpage

409

Abstract

Reviews are essential for defect detection and they provide an opportunity to control the software development process. This paper focuses upon methods for estimating the defect content after a review and hence to provide support for process control. Two new estimation methods are introduced as the assumptions of the existing statistical methods are not fulfilled. The new methods are compared with a maximum-likelihood approach. Data from several reviews are used to evaluate the different methods. It is concluded that the new estimation methods provide new opportunities to estimate the defect content

Keywords

maximum likelihood estimation; program debugging; program diagnostics; software engineering; defect detection; maximum likelihood approach; software defect content estimations; software development process; software inspections; software reviews; statistical methods; Chaotic communication; Communication system control; Control systems; Inspection; Maximum likelihood detection; Maximum likelihood estimation; Particle measurements; Process control; Programming; Statistical analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering, 1998. Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

ISSN

0270-5257

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8368-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSE.1998.671393

Filename

671393