IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijisen/v24y2016i4p529-542.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Overcoming obstacles to software defect prevention

Author

Listed:
  • Bing Huang
  • Zongquan Ma
  • Jinghui Li

Abstract

Software defect prevention is an important way to reduce defect introduction rate and the costs of software development. However, it is normally only achievable for organisations which are elevating to or already at CMM level 5 under the existing framework. The conditions required to implement the existing approach are generally out of reach for organisations at low process maturity levels. The difficulties confronting organisations originated from the fact that the existing processes are largely dependent on the experts' experience. Root cause analysis is generally conducted using brainstorming, which is hard to be replicated by organisations that lack experience. A knowledge base of root cause modes is developed by structural analysis. Based on this, a knowledge system is developed to aid organisations with implementing defect prevention and help software developers improve their ability to prevent software defects. The application cases show that the system is quite easy to use and has advantages in identifying human errors and aiding small companies in implementing defect prevention.

Suggested Citation

  • Bing Huang & Zongquan Ma & Jinghui Li, 2016. "Overcoming obstacles to software defect prevention," International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 24(4), pages 529-542.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijisen:v:24:y:2016:i:4:p:529-542
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=80290
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijisen:v:24:y:2016:i:4:p:529-542. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=188 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.