Title
Defect analysis in mission-critical software systems: a detailed investigation
Abstract
AbstractThe practice of defect analysis is recognized as an essential task for software process measurement, yet its effective application in the industrial development of large-scale software systems raises several challenges. We report the results of a study conducted at SELEX ES - a large system integrator leader in the market of software-intensive mission-critical systems. The article describes the defect analysis approach that we tailored to evaluate the software development process with respect to the quality of produced software and its relation with the required effort. Three key phases of the process were addressed, regarding the software implementation, the testing phase and the prerelease defect fixing activity, over a set of six computer software configuration items developed from 2009 to 2012 for the naval and maritime domain product line.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1002/smr.1699
Periodicals
Keywords
Field
DocType
defect analysis,process measurement,mission-critical systems,industrial study,empirical study,process evaluation
Personal software process,Systems engineering,Software engineering,Software system,Software development process,Software metric,Engineering,Software construction,Software verification and validation,Software development,Software sizing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
27
1
2047-7473
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.50
28
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gabriella Carrozza18411.39
Roberto Pietrantuono235730.48
Stefano Russo372878.07