Early measurement and improvement of software quality

Author

Tian, Jeff

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas, TX, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

19-21 Aug 1998

Firstpage

196

Lastpage

201

Abstract

The paper combines relevant research in software reliability engineering and software measurement to develop an integrated approach for the early measurement and improvement of software quality. Recent research in these areas is extended 1) to select appropriate software measures based on. A formal model, 2) to construct tree-based reliability models for early problem identification and quality improvement, and 3) to develop tools to support industrial applications. Initial results applying this approach to several IBM products demonstrated the applicability and effectiveness of this approach

Keywords

software metrics; software quality; software reliability; software tools; IBM products; early problem identification; early software quality improvement; early software quality measurement; formal model; industrial applications; software reliability engineering; tools; tree-based reliability models; Computer science; Electronic mail; Predictive models; Programming; Quality assessment; Reliability engineering; Software measurement; Software quality; Software reliability; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1998. COMPSAC '98. Proceedings. The Twenty-Second Annual International

Conference_Location

Vienna

ISSN

0730-3157

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8585-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPSAC.1998.716656

Filename

716656