Managing software defects: defect analysis and traceability

  • Authors:
  • Craig Henderson

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper describes a mechanism for presenting software defect metrics to aid analysis. A graphical representation of the history of software builds is presented, that records software build quality in a way that cannot be displayed in a single numerical table, and is visually more appealing and more easily digestible than a series of related tables. The radial analysis charts can be used to represent derivative information in a two-dimensional form and is demonstrated with practical examples of Defect Analysis and Root Cause Analysis.