Objective software quality assessment

Acceptance of software as being of sufficient quality for use in safety critical systems is a highly subjective process. A modeling technique, Bayesian Belief Networks (BBNs) offers an approach to making these assessments more objective. Use of BBNs can make the assessment process visible and repeat...

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Main Authors: Johnson, G., Xingbo Yu
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Bayesian methods
Hardware
Performance evaluation
Physics
Software design
Software engineering
Software performance
Software quality
Software safety
Software testing
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Summary:Acceptance of software as being of sufficient quality for use in safety critical systems is a highly subjective process. A modeling technique, Bayesian Belief Networks (BBNs) offers an approach to making these assessments more objective. Use of BBNs can make the assessment process visible and repeatable such that it may be reviewed and validated. The method allows for incorporating data that relates review conclusions to observed quality. Furthermore, it supports combining software engineering measurements with review conclusions in the assessment process. These features offer a path forward to making the software assessment simpler, repeatable, and more objective. This paper introduces BBNs and illustrates the potential application to software assessment.
ISSN:1082-3654
2577-0829
DOI:10.1109/NSSMIC.1999.842911