An Approach to Software Quality Prediction from Ada Designs

Abstract

An ongoing research project on estimating software quality from Ada designs is discussed. The research is motivated by the need for technology to analyze designs, when they are first represented, for their likely effect on quality factors. The objective of this research is to build multivariate models relating design characteristics and environmental factors to reliability and maintainability. Early results of the research are discussed, including alternative definitions of reliability and maintainability, a representation of Ada design structure, characteristics of software project data used for analysis, and preliminary statistical results testing hypotheses concerning the effects of design structure on reliability and maintainability.... Reliability, Maintainability, Software design, Ada, Software quality, Metrics, Measurement, Prediction.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA264731

Entities

People

  • D. R. Clarson
  • Malcolm Smith
  • W. M. Evanco
  • W. W. Agresti

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • High Level Languages
  • Information Processing
  • Maintenance
  • Operating Systems
  • Regression Analysis
  • Reliability
  • Software Design
  • Software Development
  • Software Metrics
  • Software Testing
  • Statistical Analysis

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.