• DocumentCode
    3623043
  • Title

    An empirical investigation of software fault distribution

  • Author

    K.-H. Moller;D.J. Paulish

  • Author_Institution
    Corporate Res. & Dev., Siemens AG, Munich, Germany
  • fYear
    1993
  • fDate
    6/15/1905 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    82
  • Lastpage
    90
  • Abstract
    The paper investigates the distribution of faults within three evolutionary versions or releases of a system software product. A greater concentration of faults was found in certain software program modules as compared to other modules. The fault rates are correlated to the percentage of new and changed lines of code, the module size, and the programming languages used. Additionally, a number of purely qualitative reasons for the observed concentration of faults are asserted.
  • Keywords
    "System software","Computer industry","Software measurement","Computer languages","Size measurement","Research and development","Programming","Fault diagnosis","Software systems","Control systems"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Software Metrics Symposium, 1993. Proceedings., First International
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-3740-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/METRIC.1993.263798
  • Filename
    263798
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3623043