An Industrial Case Study on Improving Quality in Integrated Software Product using defect dependency

– Product based organizations have diverse product offerings that meet various business needs. The products are in turn integrated to create integrated product suites. Rigorous product engineering is a must for creation of high quality integrated software products. Adequate measures must be taken to improve quality of the integrated product before every release of its module or sub-product. It is hard to imagine upgrading an integrated software product with unidentified defects prior to its release. In this paper, we share our observations on implementing a defect dependency metric to identify the dependency of a defect over a real-time industry defect dataset of an integrated software product. This defect dependency metric was captured and analyzed during release cycle(s) to avoid surprise issues post product launch. Keywords—integrated software products; software quality; defect; defect dependency; software metric; product development; rough-set theory; defect widespread

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2015
• Where: APSEC
• Authors: Sai Anirudh Karre, Y. Raghu Reddy
• Keywords: APSEC 2015, Software Engineering