Software engineering metrics and models
Software engineering metrics and models
Estimating software fault content before coding
ICSE '92 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering
Applied software measurement (2nd ed.): assuring productivity and quality
Applied software measurement (2nd ed.): assuring productivity and quality
Defect content estimations from review data
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Software engineering
A Critique of Software Defect Prediction Models
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Experimentation in software engineering: an introduction
Experimentation in software engineering: an introduction
A Comprehensive Evaluation of Capture-Recapture Models for Estimating Software Defect Content
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Exploring the relationship between design measures and software quality in object-oriented systems
Journal of Systems and Software
The application of subjective estimates of effectiveness to controlling software inspections
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on software maintenance
Elements of Software Science (Operating and programming systems series)
Elements of Software Science (Operating and programming systems series)
Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering
Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering
Cost estimation for web applications
Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering
What We Have Learned About Fighting Defects
METRICS '02 Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Software Metrics
Quantitative Evaluation of Capture-Recapture Models to Control Software Inspections
ISSRE '97 Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
A Survey on Testing Technique Empirical Studies: How Limited is our Knowledge
ISESE '02 Proceedings of the 2002 International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering
Using multiple adaptive regression splines to support decision making in code inspections
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: Applications of statistics in software engineering
Determining how much software assurance is enough?: a value-based approach
EDSER '05 Proceedings of the seventh international workshop on Economics-driven software engineering research
Development of a hybrid cost estimation model in an iterative manner
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
Mining metrics to predict component failures
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
Information and Software Technology
Comparing Model Generated with Expert Generated IV&V Activity Plans
ESEM '07 Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software Defect Prediction Using Regression via Classification
AICCSA '06 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications
Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Procedures
Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Procedures
State of the practice in software effort estimation: a survey and literature review
CEE-SET'08 Proceedings of the Third IFIP TC 2 Central and East European conference on Software engineering techniques
Empirical evaluation of the effects of mixed project data on learning defect predictors
Information and Software Technology
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Planning quality assurance (QA) activities in a systematic way and controlling their execution are challenging tasks for companies that develop software or software-intensive systems. Both require estimation capabilities regarding the effectiveness of the applied QA techniques and the defect content of the checked artifacts. Existing approaches for these purposes need extensive measurement data from historical projects. Due to the fact that many companies do not collect enough data for applying these approaches (especially for the early project lifecycle), they typically base their QA planning and controlling solely on expert opinion. This article presents a hybrid method combining commonly available measurement data and context-specific expert knowledge. To evaluate the method's applicability and usefulness, we conducted a case study in the context of independent verification and validation activities for critical software in the space domain. A hybrid defect content and effectiveness model was developed for the software requirements analysis phase and evaluated with available legacy data. One major result is that the hybrid model provides improved estimation accuracy when compared to applicable models based solely on data. The mean magnitude of relative error (MMRE) determined by cross-validation is 29.6% compared to 76.5% obtained by the most accurate data-based model.