Applying Software Defect Estimations: Using a Risk Matrix for Tuning Test Effort — mentioned by dredmorbius

Tue, 11 Feb 2014 05:57:38 GMT

It's a known thing. Look up "software defect estimation". The methods aren't too dissimilar to how population ecologists estimate the population of a wild animal population (you tag individuals and note the rate at which you're repeated re-tagging the same ones), the estimated total falls out via statistics. It's not a method that's applied frequently even within organizations (I've worked in and with QA numerous times), and my copy of Cem Kaner's Testing Computer Software doesn't seem to address the matter. Boehm's Software Engineering Economics discusses software reliability modelling at…

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Applying Software Defect Estimations: Using a Risk Matrix for Tuning Test Effort — mentioned by dredmorbius