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Towards a generic model for software quality prediction

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Zeeshan Ali Rana,

Shafay Shamail,

Mian Muhammad AwaisAuthors Info & Claims

WoSQ '08: Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Software quality

Pages 35 - 40

https://doi.org/10.1145/1370099.1370108

Published: 11 May 2008 Publication History

Abstract

Various models and techniques have been proposed and applied in literature for software quality prediction. Specificity of each suggested model is one of the impediments in development of a generic model. A few models have been quality factor specific whereas others are software development paradigm specific. The models can even be company specific or domain specific. The amount of work done for software quality prediction compels the researchers to get benefit from the existing models and develop a relatively generic model. Development of a generic model will facilitate the quality managers by letting them focus on how to improve the quality instead of employing time on deciding which technique best suites their scenario. This paper suggests a generic model which takes software as input and predicts a quality factor value using existing models. This approach captures the specificity of existing models in various dimensions (like quality factor, software development paradigm, and software development life cycle phase etc.), and calculates quality factor value based on the model with higher accuracy. Application of the model has been discussed with the help of an example.

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Towards a generic model for software quality prediction
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
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