Software Quality Management Anna University Syllabus B.E. IV CSE About Reliability growth models for quality management

1. Software Quality Management
Unit
U – IV
Roy Antony Arnold G
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Asst. Prof. / CSE

2. • Alth h reliability growth models are meant
Although li bilit th d l t
for reliability assessment, they are also
useful for quality management at the
back end of the development process.
• Models developed from a previous product or
a previous release of the same product can be
used to track the testing defects of the
current product.
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• To have significant improvement, the defect
arrival rate ( f il
i l t (or failure d i ) of the
density) f h
current project must fall below the model
curve.
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6. • The QIP involved five extra activities:
1. Blitz testing — "artistic" testing in stressful
environments.
2. Customer evaluation — customers conducting
testing in the development laboratory.
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3 Code inspections — additional inspections of
error-prone modules, especially routines that are
difficult to test such as the error
recovery/exception h dli routines.
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4. Design reviews — re-review of designs of suspect
components and modules.
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5. Extension of system test — improvement of test
suites and extension of testing schedules to allow
thorough final test execution.

9. • Because of the special QIP activities, the
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product ship date was delayed one
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month.
• As a result more than 250 field defects
result,
were found and removed.
• The field quality of the product, evidenced
by field defect arrivals reported in later
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years, improved significantly.