Defect analysis in mission-critical software systems: a detailed investigation
2015
The practice of defect analysis is recognized as an essential task for software process measurement, yet its effective application in the industrial development of large-scale software systems raises several challenges. We report the results of a study conducted at SELEX ES - a large system integrator leader in the market of software-intensive mission-critical systems. The article describes the defect analysis approach that we tailored to evaluate the software development process with respect to the quality of produced software and its relation with the required effort. Three key phases of the process were addressed, regarding the software implementation, the testing phase and the prerelease defect fixing activity, over a set of six computer software configuration items developed from 2009 to 2012 for the naval and maritime domain product line.
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- Social software engineering
- Software construction
- Software peer review
- Systems engineering
- Software sizing
- Software Engineering Process Group
- Software design description
- Reliability engineering
- Engineering
- Software development
- Goal-Driven Software Development Process
- Personal software process
- Software system
- Software engineering
- Software development process
- Software metric
- Software verification and validation
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