Predicting Short-Term Defect Inflow in Large Software Projects – An Initial Evaluation

11th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, EASE 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Staron, Miroslaw ^a   Meding, Wilhelm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

defect inflow; Prediction models; project status monitoring

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DEFECT INFLOW; LARGE PROGRAMS; MONITORING PURPOSE; PLANNING AND MONITORING; PREDICTION MODELLING; PROJECT MONITORING; PROJECT PLANNING; PROJECT STATUS MONITORING; SOFTWARE PROJECT; STATUS MONITORING;

DEFECTS;

EID: 70649083024     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EASE2007.4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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