Defect prevention activities and tools

Author

Nakamura, Kiyoh ; Sugawara, Mamoru ; Toyama, Masahiro

Author_Institution

Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan

fYear

1991

fDate

23-26 Jun 1991

Firstpage

360

Abstract

An attempt is made to deal with human error in order to assure the quality of software. Human characteristics are classified into positive characteristics and negative characteristics. The NAZE NAZE (Why? Why?) campaign, which corresponds to the positive characteristic, is being executed. This campaign is an effort to avoid repeating the same mistakes by analyzing bugs. The bug has valuable information even though it must not be allowed to remain in the software. Improvements in methods for detecting and removing bugs address the results of peoples´ negative characteristics. The know how obtained by the NAZE NAZE campaign is used to improve these methods. These actions have proven to be effective in the detection and prevention of software bugs

Keywords

program debugging; quality control; software reliability; NAZE NAZE campaign; defect prevention; human error; negative characteristics; positive characteristics; software bug detection; software quality; Computer bugs; Computer errors; Hardware; Histograms; Human factors; Manufacturing; Programming; Software quality; Standardization; Telecommunications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1991. ICC '91, Conference Record. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Denver, CO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0006-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1991.162390

Filename

162390