Multi-criteria Decision Making in Optimal Software Testing-Allocation Problem

We discussed estimating optimal testing-resource allocation for the module testing in software testing phase by applying the notion of the multi-attribute utility theory. Concretely, considering the utilities of software development manager for the reliability, testing-resource and testing-cost, we define testing-resource allocation problems for estimating optimal testing-resource allocation maximizing the utility of the software development manager under the certain testing-strategy. Finally, we show examples of the applications of our approaches by using actual data, and give some consideration on our results and the importance of developing testing management strategy in the software module testing.