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• NIST Special Publication 500-209: Software Error Analysis

Wendy W. Peng
Dolores R. Wallace

Systems and Software Technology Division
Computer Systems Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899

April 1993

** ABSTRACT

This document provides guidance on software error analysis. Software error analysis includes error detection, analysis, and resolution. Error detection techniques considered in the study are those used in software development, software quality assurance, and software verification, validation and testing activities. These techniques are those frequendy cited in technical literature and software engineering standards or those representing new approaches to support error detection. The study includes stadstical process control techniques and rslates them to their use as a software quality assurance technique for both product and process improvement. Finally, the report describes several software reliability models.

** KEYWORDS

Data Collection; Error Detection; Error Removal; High Integrity Software; Metrics; Software Error Analysis; Software Quality Assurance; Software Verification and Validation; Statistical Process Control