Achieving quality in the development process
AT&T Technical Journal
Understanding and Controlling Software Costs
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Cost Model for Determining the Optimal Number of Software Test Cases
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Evaluating the effectiveness of reliability-assurance techniques
Journal of Systems and Software
The Cost of Data Flow Testing: An Empirical Study
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software faults: spreading, detection and costs
Software Engineering Journal - Special issue: on software reliability and metrics
Determining an Optimal Time Interval for Testing and Debugging Software
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Optimum software release time with a given cost budget
Journal of Systems and Software
Software complexity and maintenance costs
Communications of the ACM
Key Lessons in Achieving Widespread Inspection Use
IEEE Software
Modeling the cost of software quality
Digital Technical Journal
Optimal Test Distributions for Software Failure Cost Estimation
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Using failure cost information for testing and reliability assessment
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Computing research programs in the U.S.
Communications of the ACM
Methods of measuring software reuse for the prediction of maintenance effort
Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice
Quantum improvements in software system quality
Communications of the ACM
An Experiment to Assess the Cost-Benefits of Code Inspections in Large Scale Software Development
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software quality assurance: an analytical survey and research prioritization
Journal of Systems and Software
Semantics Guided Regression Test Cost Reduction
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A method for estimating maintenance cost in a software project: a case study
Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice
Evaluating the cost of software quality
Communications of the ACM
A field study of scale economies in software maintenance
Management Science - Special issue: Frontier research on information systems and economics
Incremental delivery reduces maintenance cost: a COCOMO-based study
Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice
A Software Cost Model with Warranty and Risk Costs
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue on invited articles on top systems and software engineering scholars
A Decision-Analytic Stopping Rule for Validation of Commercial Software Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
On site: global perceptions of IS journals
Communications of the ACM
Software Engineering Economics
Software Engineering Economics
Cost-effective Detection of Software Defects through Perspective-basedInspections
Empirical Software Engineering
50 Years of Software: Key Principles for Quality
IT Professional
A Cost-Effective Approach to Testing
IEEE Software
Determining the Cost of a Stop-Test Decision
IEEE Software
Process Improvement and the Corporate Balance Sheet
IEEE Software
Effects of Reuse on Quality, Productivity, and Economics
IEEE Software
Quality Outcomes: Determining Business Value
IEEE Software
How Software Process Improvement Helped Motorola
IEEE Software
Is Proof More Cost-Effective Than Testing?
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A formal model of the software test process
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The cost of errors in software development: evidence from industry
Journal of Systems and Software
Investigating the Defect Detection Effectiveness and Cost Benefit of Nominal Inspection Teams
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Software Cost Model for Quantifying the Gain with Considerations of Random Field Environments
IEEE Transactions on Computers
An analysis of research in computing disciplines
Communications of the ACM - Wireless sensor networks
Selecting a Cost-Effective Test Case Prioritization Technique
Software Quality Control
On test suite composition and cost-effective regression testing
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Journal of Systems and Software
Determining Inspection Cost-Effectiveness by Combining Project Data and Expert Opinion
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Empirical Software Engineering
Prioritizing JUnit Test Cases: An Empirical Assessment and Cost-Benefits Analysis
Empirical Software Engineering
Software Defect Association Mining and Defect Correction Effort Prediction
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An assessment of systems and software engineering scholars and institutions (2000-2004)
Journal of Systems and Software
Modeling software testing costs and risks using fuzzy logic paradigm
Journal of Systems and Software
Research NoteSell First, Fix Later: Impact of Patching on Software Quality
Management Science
A Systematic Review of Software Development Cost Estimation Studies
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Quality, productivity and economic benefits of software reuse: a review of industrial studies
Empirical Software Engineering
Software Measurement: Establish - Extract - Evaluate - Execute
Software Measurement: Establish - Extract - Evaluate - Execute
Probabilistic Analysis of Process Economics
Software Process: Improvement and Practice - Advances in Software Process Improvement
Journal of Systems and Software
Motivation in Software Engineering: A systematic literature review
Information and Software Technology
Measuring the ROI of Software Process Improvement
IEEE Software
Systematic literature reviews in software engineering - A systematic literature review
Information and Software Technology
On modeling software defect repair time
Empirical Software Engineering
Using test case patterns to estimate software development and quality management cost
Software Quality Control
Modeling and Predicting Software Failure Costs
COMPSAC '09 Proceedings of the 2009 33rd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference - Volume 01
System Software Reliability
Prescription, description, reflection: the shape of the software process improvement field
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
Optimum release time for software systems based on reliability and cost criteria
Journal of Systems and Software
A mapping study to investigate component-based software system metrics
Journal of Systems and Software
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Abstract: Software quality costs have not received as much attention from the research community as other economic aspects of software development. Over the last three decades, a number of articles on this topic have appeared in a range of journals, but comprehensive overviews of this body of research are not available. For the detailed review of software quality cost research presented in this article, we collect 87 articles published between 1980 and 2009 in 60 leading computing journals. We study the distribution of these articles across research disciplines and journals as well as over time. Moreover, we identify the predominant researchers in the software quality cost domain and the related research clusters. We also classify the articles according to three properties, namely, research topic, research scope, and research approach. This categorization enables us to identify aspects emphasized by previous research on software quality costs and to point out promising future research directions. Our review shows that prevention costs have gained the least attention, in spite of their big cost impact. It also reveals that only one article has targeted multiple companies. Further, we observe that many articles do not empirically validate their findings. This is especially true for those articles dealing with an entire firm.