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Determining how much software assurance is enough?: a value-based approach

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LiGuo Huang,

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 30, Issue 4

Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/1082983.1083095

Published: 15 May 2005 Publication History

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A classical problem facing many software projects is to determine when to stop testing and release the product for use. Risk analyses address such "how much is enough?" questions, by balancing the risk exposure of doing too little with the risk exposure of doing too much. However, it's difficult to quantify the relative probabilities and sizes of loss in order to provide practical approaches for determining a risk-balanced "sweet spot" operating point.In this paper, we provide a quantitative approach based on the COCOMO II cost estimation model, the COQUALMO quality estimation model and the Value Estimating Relationships.

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Determining how much software assurance is enough?: a value-based approach
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. System management
        Quality assurance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Process validation

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 30, Issue 4

July 2005

1514 pages

ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/1082983

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EDSER '05: Proceedings of the seventh international workshop on Economics-driven software engineering research
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ISBN:159593118X
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