Predicting defect content and quality assurance effectiveness by combining expert judgment and defect data - A case study

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 17-26

  Kläs, Michael ^a   Nakao, Haruka ^b   Elberzhager, Frank ^a   Münch, Jürgen ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

^b Tsukuba Space Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL SOFTWARE; CROSS VALIDATION; EXPERT JUDGMENT; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; EXPERT OPINION; HYBRID METHOD; HYBRID MODEL; LEGACY DATA; MEASUREMENT DATA; PROJECT LIFECYCLE; RELATIVE ERRORS; SOFTWARE INTENSIVE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS; SPACE DOMAIN; VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DEFECTS; ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; FLOW PATTERNS; HYBRID SENSORS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VERIFICATION;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 67249094199     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2008.43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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