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29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'05) Volume 1
The Vital Few Versus the Trivial Many: Examining the Pareto Principle for Software
Edinburgh, Scotland
July 26-July 28
ISBN: 0-7695-2413-3
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| Mechelle Gittens, Yong Kim, David Godwin, "The Vital Few Versus the Trivial Many: Examining the Pareto Principle for Software," 2012 IEEE 36th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference, vol. 1, pp. 179-185, 29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'05) Volume 1, 2005. | |||
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| @article{ 10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.153, author = {Mechelle Gittens and Yong Kim and David Godwin}, title = {The Vital Few Versus the Trivial Many: Examining the Pareto Principle for Software}, journal ={2012 IEEE 36th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference}, volume = {1}, year = {2005}, issn = {0730-3157}, pages = {179-185}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/COMPSAC.2005.153}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, } | |||
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| TY - CONF JO - 2012 IEEE 36th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference TI - The Vital Few Versus the Trivial Many: Examining the Pareto Principle for Software SN - 0730-3157 SP179 EP185 A1 - Mechelle Gittens, A1 - Yong Kim, A1 - David Godwin, PY - 2005 KW - Empirical study KW - defects KW - Pareto principle VL - 1 JA - 2012 IEEE 36th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference ER - | |||
This paper discusses the Pareto principle as it relates to the distribution of software defects in code. We look at evidence in the context of both the software test team, and users of the software. We also investigate two related principles. The first principle is that the distribution of defects in code relates to the distribution of complexity in code. The second principle is that how we define complexity relates to the distribution of defects in code. We present this work as an empirical study of three general hypotheses investigated for large production-level software; we show that the essence of the principle holds, while precise percentages do not.
Index Terms:
Empirical study, defects, Pareto principle
Citation:
Mechelle Gittens, Yong Kim, David Godwin, "The Vital Few Versus the Trivial Many: Examining the Pareto Principle for Software," compsac, vol. 1, pp.179-185, 29th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'05) Volume 1, 2005
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