Defect Prevention: A General Framework and Its Application

Author

Meng Li ; He Xiaoyuan ; Sontakke, A.

Author_Institution

Neusoft Group Ltd., Shenyang

fYear

2006

fDate

27-28 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

281

Lastpage

286

Abstract

Defect prevention in CMM and causal analysis and resolution in CMMI are focused on identifying the root cause of defects and preventing defects from recurring. Actions are expected at a project level as well as organization level. This paper provides a general framework of defect prevention activities which consists of organization structure, defect definition, defect prevention process and quality culture establishment. Implementation of defect prevention results in rapid and sustained improvement in software product quality which is evident from an example in Neusoft Group, where defect density in post release phase decreased from 0.85 defects/KLOC in 2000 to 0.1 defects/KLOC in 2005

Keywords

Capability Maturity Model; software quality; Capability Maturity Model; causal analysis; defect definition; defect density; defect prevention; organization structure; quality culture establishment; software product quality improvement; Automobiles; Buildings; Computer industry; Continuous improvement; Coordinate measuring machines; Data analysis; Databases; Embedded software; Software quality; Software standards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quality Software, 2006. QSIC 2006. Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

ISSN

1550-6002

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2718-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/QSIC.2006.22

Filename

4032296