On effective use of reliability models and defect data in software development

Rattikorn Hewett; Aniruddha Kulkarni; Remzi Seker; Catherine Stringfellow

doi:10.1109/TPSD.2006.5507460

On effective use of reliability models and defect data in software development

Rattikorn Hewett, Aniruddha Kulkarni, Remzi Seker, Catherine Stringfellow

Computer Science

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Abstract

In software technology today, several development methodologies such as extreme programming and open source development increasingly use feedback from customer testing. This makes the customer defect data become more readily available. This paper proposes an effective use of reliability models and defect data to help managers make software release decisions by applying a strategy for selecting a suitable reliability model, which best fits the customer defect data as testing progresses. We validate the proposed approach in an empirical study using a dataset of defect reports obtained from testing of three releases of a large medical system. The paper describes detailed results of our experiments and concludes with suggested guidelines on the usage of reliability models and defect data.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2006 IEEE Region 5 Conference
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	67-71
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	1424403596, 9781424403592
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TPSD.2006.5507460
State	Published - Jan 1 2006
Event	2006 IEEE Region 5 Conference - San Antonio, TX, United States Duration: Apr 7 2006 → Apr 8 2006

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Name	2006 IEEE Region 5 Conference

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Conference	2006 IEEE Region 5 Conference
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Antonio, TX
Period	04/7/06 → 04/8/06

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