A novel approach to calculate the severity and priority of bugs in software projects

Author

Soner, Swapnil ; Jain, Ati ; Tripathi, Anshu ; Litoriya, Ratnesh

Author_Institution

Mahakal Inst. of Tech., RGPV Univ., Ujjain, India

Volume

2

fYear

2010

fDate

22-24 June 2010

Abstract

Discovering and fixing software bugs is a difficult maintenance task, and a considerable amount of effort is devoted by software developers on this issue. In the world of software one cannot get rid of the bugs, fixes, patches etc. each of them have a severity and priority associated to it. There is not yet any formal relation between these components as both of these either depends on the developer and tester or on customer and project manger to be decided on. On one hand, the priority of a component depends on the cost and the efforts associated with it. While on the other, the severity depends on the efforts required to accomplish a particular task. This research paper proposes a formula that can draw a relationship among severity and priority.

Keywords

program debugging; software bugs; software developers; software fixes; software patches; software projects; Computer bugs; Computer science education; Costs; Educational technology; Project management; Software debugging; Software maintenance; Software systems; Technology management; Testing; bugs; cost estimation; effort estimation; priority; severity; test cases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Education Technology and Computer (ICETC), 2010 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6367-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICETC.2010.5529438

Filename

5529438