TY - GEN
T1 - The effect of the number of defects on estimates produced by capture-recapture models
AU - Walia, Gursimran Singh
AU - Carver, Jeffrey C.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Project managers use inspection data as input to capture-recapture (CR) models to estimate the total number of faults present in a software artifact. The CR models use the number of faults found during an inspection and the overlap of faults among inspectors to calculate the estimate. A common belief is that CR models underestimate the number of faults but their performance can be improved with more input data. This paper investigates the minimum number of faults that has to be present in an artifact before the CR method can be used. The result shows that the minimum number of faults varies from ten faults to twenty-three faults for different CR estimators.
AB - Project managers use inspection data as input to capture-recapture (CR) models to estimate the total number of faults present in a software artifact. The CR models use the number of faults found during an inspection and the overlap of faults among inspectors to calculate the estimate. A common belief is that CR models underestimate the number of faults but their performance can be improved with more input data. This paper investigates the minimum number of faults that has to be present in an artifact before the CR method can be used. The result shows that the minimum number of faults varies from ten faults to twenty-three faults for different CR estimators.
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U2 - 10.1109/ISSRE.2008.61
DO - 10.1109/ISSRE.2008.61
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:67249149037
SN - 9780769534053
T3 - Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE
SP - 305
EP - 306
BT - Proceedings - 19th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE 2008
T2 - 19th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE 2008
Y2 - 10 November 2008 through 14 November 2008
ER -