Software Data Baseline Analysis.

Abstract

The subject report summarizes the results of an analysis of software error data supplied by the Information Sciences Division of Rome Air Development Center (RADC). These data consisted of the software problem histories of five large-scale software developments, individually collected by the development contractors and supplied to RADC. The problems were classified by a previously developed error typology. The purpose of the analysis was to investigate the existence of any consistencies in the occurrence of errors utilizing the five development efforts. The analysis included consideration of the error typology, rate of occurrence, time of occurrence, time to fix, and module size. Results of the analysis isolate methodological problems in the gathering of software error data and suggest that positive incentives be provided to development team members involved in the data collection effort. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA068533

Entities

People

  • D. L. Fish
  • M. T. Matsumoto

Organizations

  • General Electric

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Compilers
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Data Management
  • Databases
  • Information Science
  • Language
  • Life Cycles
  • Reliability
  • Software Development
  • Software Testing
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Test Methods

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Approximation Theory.
  • Software Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design